Dying while waiting for a kidney: the limbo of Venezuelan children in need of a transplant

The shortage of immunosuppressants and the hospital crisis led the Venezuelan government to suspend transplants four years ago. Sixty-three children have died while waiting for transplants.

Yohelys Céspedes and her son Ángel travel two hours from Valles del Tuy to Caracas for hemodialysis three times a week. That day they had to make an emergency stop at the hospital to evaluate Angel's discomfort, which passed a few hours later, when he was able to say, jokingly and with a smile hidden in his mask: “I'm already on the line”.

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