A week after earthquakes tore through northern Venezuela, hospitals in La Guaira are buckling under the weight of the disaster – and the risk of disease outbreaks in shelters is rising fast.

Over 1,700 dead and thousands injured after Venezuela earthquakes, as UN-led teams race against time with ongoing rescues, aftershocks and looming heavy rains.

Search and rescue operations continued in Venezuela on Tuesday as thousands of displaced survivors struggled to find shelter and humanitarians issued an alert over the spread of…

The World Health Organization voiced concerns Tuesday about potential disease outbreaks in Venezuela with local health services...

The WHO warns of potential disease outbreaks in earthquake-hit Venezuela due to overwhelmed health services and low vaccination rates. Learn more about the

Aid groups are warning that Venezuela's healthcare system is at its breaking point nearly a week after two powerful earthquakes hit the South American country.

Las organizaciones humanitarias alertan sobre la propagación de enfermedades infecciosas y la presión extrema a la que se ve sometido el sistema sanitario de Venezuela tras dos…

Las organizaciones humanitarias advierten sobre la propagación de enfermedades y la presión extrema a la que se ve sometido el sistema sanitario de Venezuela tras los dos potentes…

More than 1700 people have died and 50,000 remain missing after the quakes.

The healthcare system, already strained by years of underinvestment, is under extreme pressure.

UNICEF has estimated that around 1.8 million people, including 680,000 children, require humanitarian assistance following the quakes.

LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AFP) -- Tens of thousands of people desperately sought food and shelter in Venezuela on Tuesday after the two earthquakes killed nearly 2,

United Nations High Commission for Refugees and other international organizations warned that Venezuela's humanitarian crisis is deteriorating rapidly following the twin…

With far more dead than living people taken from the rubble a week after Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes, doctors say the biggest dangers now facing survivors were…

Aid organizations caution that without swift intervention, the crisis is poised to claim more lives

Thousands of displaced Venezuelans are living in dismal sanitary conditions without access to clean water as already strained hospitals struggle to cope with an influx of…

Aid workers fear disease outbreaks in temporary shelters amid overcrowding, lack of access to clean water, sanitation.

Doctors fear a severe medical crisis in Venezuela following the 24 June earthquakes that killed 2,295 and injured more than 11,000. Thousands of displaced survivors are living in…

Medics fear earthquakes aftermath will trigger a widening medical crisis in the days and weeks ahead.

Doctors said Wednesday they feared the aftermath of Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes could trigger a widening medical crisis marked by untreated injurie

A week after twin quakes, Venezuela faces a health crisis as damaged hospitals overflow and the United Nations warns of disease spreading among survivors.