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Doctors demand humanitarian aid be allowed into Venezuela

  • Protest held at entrance to bridge that has been blocked by military

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A Venezuelan doctor attends a gathering at the entrance of a warehouse where humanitarian aid for Venezuela is being stored near the Tienditas cross-border bridge between Colombia and Venezuela in Cucuta, Colombia February 10, 2019. Photo: Reuters
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Venezuelan doctors are demanding their nation’s military allow humanitarian aid into the country.

About two dozen doctors held a protest Sunday in Colombia in front of the entrance to a bridge that has been blocked by the Venezuelan military.

Aid including food and emergency medical supplies provided by the United States is sitting in a storage facility near the bridge.

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Venezuelan doctors attend a gathering at the entrance of a warehouse where humanitarian aid for Venezuela is being stored, near the Tienditas cross-border bridge between Colombia and Venezuela, in Cucuta, Colombia February 10, 2019. Photo: Reuters
Venezuelan doctors attend a gathering at the entrance of a warehouse where humanitarian aid for Venezuela is being stored, near the Tienditas cross-border bridge between Colombia and Venezuela, in Cucuta, Colombia February 10, 2019. Photo: Reuters

Dr Katia Diaz says every day that the aid sits waiting for transport into Venezuela is one more day in which patient lives are at risk.

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Venezuela’s opposition is pledging to get the assistance into the country but President Nicolas Maduro has vowed not to accept it.

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