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Venezuela quake death toll nears 1,000 as foreign rescuers arrive · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: The staggering jump in the death toll in Venezuela. As
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  Speaker 1: we come up on forty eight hours since Wednesday's devastating earthquakes,
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  Speaker 1: authorities are now reporting more than nine hundred lives lost
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  Speaker 1: and hundreds of others remain missing. New video today helps
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  Speaker 1: explain why. This is from a drone over the state
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  Speaker 1: of La Guera, right along Venezuela's northern coast, about fifteen
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  Speaker 1: miles north of Caracas and some two hundred miles from
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  Speaker 1: the epicenter. It's a tourist town to some, home to
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  Speaker 1: so many others, Rescuers believe people could be buried alive
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  Speaker 1: under those huge piles of rubble where many tall buildings
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  Speaker 1: once stood. Also, since Wednesdays back to back quakes, experts
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  Speaker 1: say there have been more than three hundred aftershocks. That's,
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  Speaker 1: of course, only complicated any search and rescue efforts. Crews
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  Speaker 1: are calling this period the golden window. Within forty eight
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  Speaker 1: hours they have a greater chance of finding people alive Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: At this same time, the chances of them being alive
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  Speaker 1: still dramatically plunge. On top of the desperation, there's also
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  Speaker 1: growing frustration. Residents are calling on anyone and everyone to
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  Speaker 1: help find survivors who might be trapped, and that help
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  Speaker 1: is on the way, That help is on the way.
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  Speaker 1: More than eight hundred rescuers are coming from around the world,
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  Speaker 1: the US alone sending more than three hundred people, but
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  Speaker 1: getting in for some can be difficult. Some airports in
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela were also badly damaged, including the very Tarmacs. Pilots
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  Speaker 1: need to make a safe landing. CNN Stefano Posabon starts
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  Speaker 1: us off with new video showing the impact of this
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  Speaker 1: mounting disaster.
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  Speaker 2: Panic on board. This passenger's brace through powerful tremors just
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  Speaker 2: one glimpse of the chaos unleash after two massive earthquakes
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  Speaker 2: struck Venezuela. These image from the public broadcaster teleSUR shows
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  Speaker 2: large cracks split in the tarmac at Caracas International Airport,
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  Speaker 2: underscoring the damage to critically from structure. Tens of thousands
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  Speaker 2: are still reported missing. Emergency teams are racing against time
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  Speaker 2: to dig through shattered concrete, listening for any sign of life.
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  Speaker 2: In the Karrakas district of Chacao, rescuers pull survivors from
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  Speaker 2: a collapsed apartment building while others remain trapped inside Jonas.
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  Speaker 3: We have rescued three people and there are three more
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  Speaker 3: alive inside the structure, God willing that will be rescued
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  Speaker 3: very soon.
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  Speaker 2: As Venezuela struggles to cope with the scale of the disaster,
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  Speaker 2: international health is finally trickly ne, but the logistical challenges
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  Speaker 2: to mobilize the AIDS remain. These relief convoys, loaded with
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  Speaker 2: food and water are heading towards the hardested communities as
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  Speaker 2: officials work to support tens of thousands of displaced families,
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  Speaker 2: while the priority remains to rescue sos before time runs out.
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  Speaker 2: Stay FUNDU with sivon CNN.
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  Speaker 4: Edner.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks to Stefanioposmon for that report. Let's bring in Nicole cast.
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  Speaker 1: She's with the International Rescue Committee or IRC, coordinating emergency
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  Speaker 1: efforts across the Venezuelan border in Colombia. Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with the effort to just get into Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen the damage to airport, tarmacs and surrounding areas.
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  Speaker 1: How do teams work around that and get in there?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Yes, it is an extreme challenge
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  Speaker 4: to get into Venezuela at this time because, as you've
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  Speaker 4: seen in these images that you just shared. The airport
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  Speaker 4: suffered significant damage and is not really available for humanitarian workers.
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  Speaker 4: So we're looking at the option of entering via other
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  Speaker 4: airports in other areas of the country that have been
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  Speaker 4: opened for international flights recently and have opened additional routes,
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  Speaker 4: and also by land, although there are also significant challenges
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  Speaker 4: with that. You know that Venezuela still has a context
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  Speaker 4: of signif can access restraints in which humanitarian workers have
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  Speaker 4: difficulty often crossing by land.
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  Speaker 1: Doctors are warning of chronic underfunding in Venezuela, which has
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  Speaker 1: left hospitals unequipped to treat the surge of patients because
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  Speaker 1: of long standing problems in that country. Do you see
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  Speaker 1: that complicating the rescue part of these operations?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely. We have to remember that Krakas is the center
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  Speaker 4: of the country, the capitol, and also the place where
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  Speaker 4: all higher level or specialist health facilities are located, and
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  Speaker 4: so many of these facilities, including pediatric facilities and others,
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  Speaker 4: suffered significant damage had to be evacuated completely, and that
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  Speaker 4: means that all of those patients are now looking for
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  Speaker 4: another place for support and help, and so the need
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  Speaker 4: in terms of health is significant, and this is one
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  Speaker 4: of the areas of the International Rescue Committee is considering
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  Speaker 4: in our.
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  Speaker 1: Response, what do people in Venezuela right need, right now,
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  Speaker 1: need beyond those under the rubble who need rescuing, and
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  Speaker 1: how can people help.
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  Speaker 4: Well. Of course, in these first seventy two hours, the
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  Speaker 4: priority is search and rescue operations, but as those finish up,
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  Speaker 4: our priority and those are the larger humanitarian community is
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  Speaker 4: really supporting people who survived, and we're going to focus
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  Speaker 4: on basic needs. Initially, many people are displaced from their homes.
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  Speaker 4: Significant part of the affected area has suffered from structural damage,
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  Speaker 4: and so families are living sleeping on the streets, and
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  Speaker 4: our own team, the International Rescue Committee's team on the ground,
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  Speaker 4: also is sleeping on the street that these last few nights,
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  Speaker 4: and that means that shelters are filling up, and so
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  Speaker 4: people in those shelters need basic basic supplies. This includes
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  Speaker 4: supply hygiene supplies and also supplies for specific populations children, women,
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  Speaker 4: and so that's going to be the priority in the
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  Speaker 4: next few days, and then in the coming weeks, I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure we'll see some increased needs in food security, as
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  Speaker 4: many supermarkets and other places that provided foods of lilies
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  Speaker 4: also suffer damage. Was seeing increase in hunger, which was
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  Speaker 4: already a challenge in Venezuela, a country that's suffering from
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  Speaker 4: malnutrition and also additional health needs. We and wash. We
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  Speaker 4: see that water and sanitation systems have been heavily affected
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  Speaker 4: also by this incident.
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  Speaker 5: From a medical perspective, first of all, just tell us
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  Speaker 5: what you have been seeing, you and your colleagues have
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  Speaker 5: been seeing for the past forty eight hours.
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  Speaker 3: See thank you very much for the opportunity. What we're
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  Speaker 3: seeing in our hospital in right now in Venezuela with
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  Speaker 3: this catastrophe after the two earthquakes, is a very very
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  Speaker 3: difficult situation for us because this earthquake cut us in
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  Speaker 3: a complex humanitary emergency that we have lived for more
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  Speaker 3: than fifteen years. Not saying for us, saying for the
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  Speaker 3: World Health Organization. So we are lacking of antibiotess, we're
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  Speaker 3: lacking of other important medical supplies in the urgency rooms
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  Speaker 3: and operating room. That makes us very very difficult to
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  Speaker 3: give to our patients. It quite well attention in the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: Two of the hospital in Karaka has collapsed because the
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  Speaker 3: instructor is very very old and there's no maintenance they're
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  Speaker 3: not do the things every well, so we have to
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  Speaker 3: to send our patient to different hospitals in Venezuela that
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  Speaker 3: are almost in the same lacking of medica, of medicines
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  Speaker 3: that the whole Venezuela is going through the last fifteen years.
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  Speaker 5: Doctor. You just said and correct me if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 5: The two of the hospitals in Karacas have collapsed. Can
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  Speaker 5: you just just tell me that clear that for me
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  Speaker 5: what hospitals were these? Can you just clarify this?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the one hospital in the in the area of
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  Speaker 3: metropolitan area of Caraka, Hospital de Coce is in two
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  Speaker 3: blocks of the building collapse, one over the other and
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  Speaker 3: the other hospital is in Laguayra. Where is the most
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  Speaker 3: terrible scene that happened during this earthquake.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and we've seen the scenes out of wire. In fact,
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  Speaker 5: we're just playing some of them now on TV for
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  Speaker 5: our viewers. It's it's one of the most affected the scenes. Doctor.
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  Speaker 5: And already I've covered I've reported from hospitals inside Venezuela.
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  Speaker 5: They have been, you know, facing lack of necessary resources
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  Speaker 5: for many many years. As viewers will know, what what
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  Speaker 5: does something of this scale, catastrophe of this scale, what
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  Speaker 5: does that mean for every day, for patients every day?
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  Speaker 5: Give us a sense of hospital beds, something like aspirin U,
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  Speaker 5: imaging equipment. Do you have what do you need? Doctor?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we need many, many things. First, we need water.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have enough water in the hospital for the patient.
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  Speaker 3: For all the things we have to do. We need antibiotics,
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  Speaker 3: We need anesthetics. We need even the sheets, paper sheets
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  Speaker 3: for the beds of the patient. We also need all
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  Speaker 3: the things of course, UH solution, intravenous solutions. We are
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  Speaker 3: lacking all these before the earthquake, before the pandemia, before
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  Speaker 3: the blockade of the United States. So this emergency or
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  Speaker 3: this catatrophic face us with all this lacking all these,
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  Speaker 3: with the collapsed healthcare system in Venezuela. It's very very
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  Speaker 3: hard for ours, all the medicals and no to face
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  Speaker 3: this patient that needs all these things and we don't
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  Speaker 3: have more than our willingness to help them in this situation.
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  Speaker 5: Have you seen, doctor, have you have you seen aids
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  Speaker 5: starting to trickle in? Are you starting to see some
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  Speaker 5: of those items and shortages you're talking about. Have they
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  Speaker 5: started to arrive yet? Doctor?
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  Speaker 3: It's I think that they're arriving to Venezuela. But the
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  Speaker 3: thing is the health minister, there's no the distribute these
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  Speaker 3: things with transparency. We don't know what what arrived to Venezuela.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know where are those things that are coming
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  Speaker 3: from the international helping, So we don't know. We don't
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  Speaker 3: know the medical person all the medical assistance. We don't
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  Speaker 3: know where is all those help that is coming from
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  Speaker 3: international help helping or to Venezuela. That's a problem.
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  Speaker 5: How much yeah, indeed, how much trust then, doctor, given
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  Speaker 5: what you've just said, do you have in the government
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  Speaker 5: of Rodriguez, who was part of course of Nicholas Maduro's
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  Speaker 5: team for many, many years. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 5: politicize this, but this is about, you know, having a
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  Speaker 5: handle on a catastrophe of this magnitude. How much faith
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  Speaker 5: and belief that you have do you have that this
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  Speaker 5: government under Delsa Rodriguez hasn't handled on this crisis.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, we don't believe what they say. For example,
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  Speaker 3: we're not till today that there was only two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty killed person and now because you tell us
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  Speaker 3: that more almost that one thousand people killed during the earthquake.
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  Speaker 3: That's the problem that they say I'm seen inside Venezuela
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  Speaker 3: and say another thing, and try to see that the
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  Speaker 3: ward that here all is okay here not okay. We
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  Speaker 3: haven't seen people. We are as you say in the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of the interview. The family is trying with the
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  Speaker 3: bare hand, trying to rescue the patient under the the collapse.
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  Speaker 5: Better people.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't seen any any any big again trying to
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  Speaker 3: do that. It's very terrible for populations see that the
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  Speaker 3: government is facing to other side and not into Venezuela.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that that that is a huge concern. Why
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  Speaker 5: so many people be using their bare hands to try
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  Speaker 5: uh and to try and clear the rubble