Thread by @nytimes, Clinging to her mother's waist, sobbing and terrified, Milagros refused to leave. [...]

Clinging to her mother's waist, sobbing and terrified, Milagros refused to leave. Only after she fainted did the hospital let her in. 48 hours after her labor pains began, she gave birth to her baby.

Milagros’s baby Cristal was born premature and weighed just 3.3 pounds. She did not have an incubator, and did not survive past morning.

The scope of this crisis is unknown. The most recent data came in 2016, when maternal deaths shot up 65% and infant mortality rose 30% in a single year.

The minister who published the numbers was fired. New statistics have been a state secret ever since. http://nyti.ms/3bdfCd7

Childbirth in Venezuela, Where Women’s Deaths Are a State Secret

We spent weeks following women inside the country’s health care system, which has been crippled by a broken economy overseen by an increasingly authoritarian government.

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Dar a luz en Venezuela es un riesgo mortal

Acompañamos a algunas mujeres durante sus embarazos en el país donde la tasa de mortalidad de las madres y los recién nacidos son ahora secretos de Estado y la falta de suministros básicos a menudo...

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