Quake-Hit Venezuela's Hospitals Care for Children Left Alone
Hospitals are treating dozens of injured children as relatives search for missing family members and morgues fill after the twin quakes.
- Twin earthquakes measuring magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela on Wednesday, killing at least 188 people and injuring more than 1,520 others, lawmaker Jorge Rodriguez reported.
- Widespread building collapses in the coastal city of Guaira trapped residents under rubble as Venezuela recorded more than 130 aftershocks following the deadly tremors.
- Doctors report paramedics rush unaccompanied children to Caracas hospitals without family because local facilities are full. "Most of them don't have any family. They arrive alone," another doctor said.
- Anxious families at Domingo Luciani Hospital scan lists of admitted patients searching for relatives, while 52-year-old Zoraida Hernandez continues searching after her coastal home collapsed.
- Teenager Yenderlin Cabarza survived the tremors that killed her mother and uncle; family friend Rolando told AFP she "came out with her two little arms flailing" before surgery.
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They are taken from the rubble and uploaded to the ambulances.Some arrive with an adhesive tape on their arm with the name written.At the Domingo Luciani hospital in Caracas there is a 22 boys and adolescents alone between 4 and 19 years old.
Yenderlin Cabarza arrived with fractures at the hospital, in the area most affected by the earthquakes in Venezuela. Her mother did not survive, nor her uncle, who protected her with the very body of a collapse. At 13 years, she waited alone for medical care, as well as dozens of other minors. Follow: earthquakes in Venezuela left at least 235 dead and 1,000 wounded Luto: Itamaraty confirms two Brazilians among earthquake victims in Venezuela Re…
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Quake-Hit Venezuelan Hospitals Care for Children Left Alone
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