At least 22,000 doctors have left Venezuela amid widespread hunger and the economic and social collapse of the oil-producing country. Some physicians say they had to work under threat of death if ...

Venezuela's Doctors And Nurses In Public Institutions Earn A Minimal Minimum Wage : Goats and Soda Thousands of medical workers have left the country. Those who remain at public institutions earn ...

A woman prays close to a painting of Venezuelan popular saint, Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez at the street where he died in a car accident in 1919, in La Pastora neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela ...

When Venezuela President Hugo Chávez left his country to begin his cancer treatment in Cuba, he left a heath care system roiled by conflict in his wake. Since June 30, Venezuela’s public ...

Doctors think about emigrating. All say their salaries are too low, ... Every doctor in Venezuela struggles with shortages of drugs and medical supplies amid the country's economic collapse.

Devotees carrying an image of Dr. José Gregorio Hernández during a procession through the streets of Isnotú, the small town in Venezuela where he was born in 1864.

Doctors have been reduced to performing emergency surgeries by flashlight ever since the power went out over much of Venezuela last Thursday. Opposition groups say an estimated 17 people have died ...

Cuban doctors dispatched to Venezuela as part of Cuba’s mission to help the South American nation’s medical needs were pressed by the host government to tie crucial treatments and medication ...

Cuban doctors deployed in Venezuela claim they were forced to coerce patients into voting for Nicolás Maduro in his re-election campaign, according to the New York Times.

Venezuela will soon have its first saint, after ailing Pope Francis on Tuesday canonized a physician who died more than 100 years ago, ... 'Doctor of the poor' becomes Venezuela's first saint.

Doctors and other health care personnel held a protest march in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 22, 2017. Carlos Becerra/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — A man revered by millions of Venezuelans as the “doctor of the poor” is one step away from sainthood after being beatified Friday in the South American country’s capital.