Hospitals Scrap Surgeries, Venezuelans Forgo Showers as Taps Run Dry

Women fill containers with water coming from a mountain, in a road at Plan de Manzano slum in Caracas, Venezuela on July 20, 2018. Reuters/Marco Bello
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CARACAS—At one of Caracas’ biggest public hospitals, most bathrooms are closed. Patients fill jugs from a tiny tap on the ground floor that sometimes has a trickle of water. Operations are postponed or canceled.

The Central Venezuelan University hospital, once a Latin American leader, is reeling as taps run dry.