{"id":134739,"date":"2019-06-03T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=134739"},"modified":"2019-06-10T11:39:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T10:39:39","slug":"us-blockade-deprives-venezuelan-cancer-patients-of-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/06\/us-blockade-deprives-venezuelan-cancer-patients-of-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"US Blockade Deprives Venezuelan Cancer Patients of Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without a way to pay for state-funded treatments, patients \u2014 both young and old \u2014 are being refused medical attention around the world.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Medical treatments, surgical interventions, and bone marrow transplants have ground to a halt due to U.S. sanctions.
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31 May 2019 – <\/em>The U.S. blockade is putting the lives of hundreds of chronically ill patients at risk, the Latin American Foundation of Human Rights (Fundalatin) denounced today.<\/p>\n

Medical treatments, surgical interventions, and bone marrow transplants have ground to a halt as\u00a0U.S. sanctions<\/a> have started to reach\u00a0Venezuela\u2019s subsidiary linked to Petroleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) and Citgo.<\/p>\n

Without a way to pay for state-funded treatments, patients \u2014 both young and old \u2014 are being refused medical attention around the world.<\/p>\n

According to the NGO’s\u00a0president Maria Eugenia Russian, four patients, children who were part of a 26-member oncology\u00a0group in Argentina,\u00a0have died as a direct result of\u00a0the\u00a0blockade\u00a0and the inability to access the frozen\u00a0funds contributed by Pdvsa and its subsidiaries.<\/p>\n

“Four patients are clinically stable, and 15 patients in critical health, mostly children and adolescents who received aid through the subsidiary Citgo,” \u00a0Russian said.<\/p>\n

From Caracas, President Nicolas Maduro informed the crowd that Venezuela has the money, but \u201cwith this blockade \u2026 we cannot pay\u00a0bills anywhere.\u201d He noted that prior to the \u201cillegal\u201d sanctions Pdvsa would pay for treatments in a timely manner and in full.<\/p>\n

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“The world must know that we are victims of a ferocious economic blockade,” he said.<\/p>\n

Russian beseeched the U.S. government to put an end to the blockade against Venezuela and its infant population<\/a> immediately. She asked Washington to allow patients to access their desperately needed cancer treatments and regain the quality of life lost from managing these dangerous chronic diseases.<\/p>\n

Fundalatin plans to reach out to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund and the High Commission for Human Rights of the United Nations (UN) to resolve this issue and intercede on patients\u2019 behalf and end this outright violation of human rights.<\/p>\n

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31 May 2019 – The U.S. blockade is putting the lives of hundreds of chronically ill patients at risk, the Latin American Foundation of Human Rights (Fundalatin) denounced today. Without a way to pay for state-funded treatments, patients \u2014 both young and old \u2014 are being refused medical attention around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":134740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,53,52],"tags":[1065,120,393,354,1138,378,541,559,234,754,109,287,923,70,557,126],"class_list":["post-134739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","category-health","tag-chavismo","tag-conflict","tag-coup","tag-economics","tag-fake-news","tag-journalism","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-maduro","tag-media","tag-oil","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-sanctions","tag-usa","tag-venezuela","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}