Patients seen being waiting hours before to get treated. Doctors and staff working at the Vargas Hospital in the city of Caracas, Venezuela, protested demanding improvements in salaries and solutions to the crisis affecting the health system due to the lack of supplies. Workers allowed the press to enter the hospital, controlled by the state, to show how their facilities were. Within minutes, armed groups sent by the national government arrived at the hospital and forcibly removed the media.

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