A total
of ten pictures which show public health care situation in various
parts of Venezuela have been shared through social media in the past
months.
According
to an investigation from the French press agency (AFP), not all of
the photos were taken in Venezuela and none of them are recent. This
AFP expose adds to a recent flood of articles confirming assertions
by the Venezuelan government that they are a victim of a concerted
mainstream media and social media effort to show a country in ruins,
which is not the case.
The
publication was shared at least 392,000 times on Facebook since
February 10, 2019.
"Discover
why it is forbidden to enter any public hospital with a mobile phone
or a camera in Venezuela, they keep it from you until you leave the
hospital but they do not know that I carried two cell phones and that
is why it is possible to spread the information and long live public
health in a socialist country and then complain about ours,"said
the author of the publication.
The AFP
tracked the source of each picture. It turns out that most of the
images were not taken in Venezuela or were taken in the country
before 2016.
The AFP
indicated that some of the pictures were shared several times from
2014 to 2019. For example, an image taken by a Venezuelan doctor in
2014 in the emergency room of the Miguel Pérez Carreño hospital was
shared several times in 2016 as a photo of the situation at the
Manuela Sanz hospital.
Still
according to the AFP, some of the pictures show facts that happened
more than five years ago or witness situation outside Venezuela. It
appears that one of the pictures of the Facebook publication was
circulating in 2015 as an image of a hospital in the Dominican
Republic.
The AFP
concluded that not all the images of the publication were taken in
Venezuela and that they reflect the situation in the country before
2016.
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