Don’t travel with a pet to Venezuela, because if something happens to it, you won’t be able to see a vet in the collapsing country.
Venezuelan veterinarians are running low on sextuple vaccines, which are critical for dogs. The Venezuelan healthcare system is collapsing for human, too, according to Agencia EFE.
Many pet owners are dependent upon the government for veterinary care through the Nevado Mission healthcare program. The government program is geared towards ensuring that pets owned by poor families as well as street dogs and cats get the proper level of care they need, regardless of their owners’ means.
Maigualida Vargas, president of the Nevado Mission, told Agencia EFE, “Vaccines are imported into the country at costs probably affordable for private-sector veterinarians and for certain individuals, but not for buying in bulk, nor for animal shelters, nor for giving free shots.”
Bartolome Marin, president of the Venezuelan College of Veterinarians, added that the overall illness rate for pets as well as the number of cases of pets giving people diseases has “undoubtedly” shot up as resources are running low nationwide.
The government-run healthcare system is falling apart. Women are being forced to resort to sterilization surgery for family-planning since they are unable to purchase condoms or other forms of birth control. Oil-rich Venezuela has been forced to barter oil for pharmaceutical products with India due to low cash reserves while trying to have some medicine available for people in an increasingly dysfunctional and desperate medical system.
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