In 66% the scale of maternal deaths rose and in 30% the infantile ones from 2015 to 2016. They continue to rise until 2018, with the aggravating factors of malnutrition and epidemics. Death associated with pregnancy and birth care has escalated in Venezuela due to the fall of public health services, malnutrition and epidemics. The adolescent pregnancy rate, at 95 per 1,000 women, is the second highest in Latin America.

Between 2015 and 2016, maternal deaths increased by 66%, reaching a mortality rate of 140 pregnant women per 100,000 live births, and they continued to rise during 2017 and 2018. Infant deaths, more than 60% of newborns, increased by 30% (8,812 to 11,466) with a rate of 19.0 deaths per 10,000 live births.

In the ENCOVI 2017, 25,000 pregnant women had never received prenatal care and 15,000 only after the eighth month. Until August 2018, 48% of the pregnancies in poor parishes had some degree of malnutrition and 21% severe malnutrition, according to Caritas.

In 2017, 117 pregnant women from Bolívar state lost their lives due to complications due to malaria; in 2018, 10 pregnant women of 690 indigenous women with malaria in the Amazonas state also died.

Personal Opinion

The situation of the newborns is too daunting, the growth of a progressive population is in danger, these deaths that are increasing every day and aggravated more if corrections are not taken on time. President Maduro concentrated solely and exclusively on attacking politicians, imprisoning his adversaries, mistakenly trying to lie to the international community, assuring that there is no humanitarian crisis here, that Venezuelans leave the country because of the great shortcomings who live here! So while this is the policy that is implemented in Venezuela, we will not get out of this filthy hole.