Horrifying: how children are dying of hunger as HALF the population lives in 'critical' poverty in Venezuela

Food shortages in Venezuela, South America, has caused a dramatic increase in child malnutrition and

the number of cases of severely malnourished children is seriously alarming.

 According to Dr Ingrid Soto, chief of nutrition at children hospital J. M. de los Ríos, so far this year 65 kids have been admitted, whereas in 2015 the total was 35. And across the socialist country seven children under the age of 14 have died from simply not having enough to eat.

About 66 per cent of the children admitted this year to J. M. de los Ríos are nursing babies, And the consequences of this are not only dire, but irreversible.

Dr Soto said: 'If an adult suffers from malnutrition, it will not affect his brain and development so much as it would a kid in the first 1,000 days of life, then they will have issues with memory, concentration, school problems'

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