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More than half Venezuela's doctors emigrated since 2012: NGOs
More than half Venezuela's doctors have been forced to flee the country's crushing economic and political crisis, according to a report by health NGOs released Thursday. "Between 2012 and 2017, 22,000 Venezuelan doctors migrated" -- 55 percent of the total 39,000 doctors registered by the PanAmerican Health Organization in 2014, the report said. Some 6,000 nurses -- nearly a quarter of Venezuela's total -- also left the country during the same period. Nearly two million people have emigrated since 2015, the UN said, adding that around 5,000 people are leaving the country daily.
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Those who can leave,will leave.When all the humans are gone,the jungles will retake the country.