Thousands of displaced Venezuelans are sleeping in crowded shelters or outside without access to clean water amid dismal sanitary conditions following the June 24 earthquakes, which officials say killed at least 2,295 and left more than 11,000 injured.
Aid workers have warned that the aftermath of the earthquakes has developed into a major medical crisis that, unless quickly brought under control, will claim more lives in the coming days and weeks. The emergency has exposed Venezuela's chronic shortage of doctors, the result of years of economic crisis, underfunding, and emigration.
