Venezuelan mothers head to Brazil to give birth due to lack diapers, medicine

Cecilia, a Venezuelan woman holds her baby at a maternity hospital in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil August 21, 2018. [Reuters]

Expecting Venezuelan women are leaving their country due to a lack of prenatal care, medicine and diapers and giving birth across the border in Brazil, where three Venezuelan babies are born every day.

“My baby would have died if I had stayed. There was no food or medicine, no doctors,” said Maria Teresa Lopez as she fed her daughter Fabiola, who was born on Monday night by caesarian in the maternity hospital of Boa Vista, the capital of Brazil’s Roraima border state.