Organ transplant patients face shortage of medicine in Venezuela

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Organ transplant patients face shortage of medicine in Venezuela

 

Venezuela’s prolonged economic crisis is closing in on another set of victims: organ transplant patients.

They are warning that a shortage of post-transplant medications is putting them at risk of losing their organs.

The situation is so dire, that some are resorting to using expired drugs or are stopping their treatment altogether.

Mary Triny Mena reports from Caracas.