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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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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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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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