Unusable medicines “dumped” on Venezuela

Six months after devastating floods and landslides left up to 30000 people dead or missing and 200000 homeless, Venezuela is being inundated again—by a flood of unusable medical aid. Harrowing television pictures of the disaster last December in the coastal states of Vargas and Falcon, near Caracas, sparked a massive humanitarian response, and tonnes of medicines are still arriving from all around the world.

However, health workers helping the victims say thathuge quantities of medical …