CARACAS: Hardly anybody likes hospital food but in Venezuela, it's so awful— monotonous, starchy diets cooked in filthy conditions, and newborns fed intravenous solution for lack of baby formula—that experts call it an actual health risk.

Take Carla Lopez, 40, who has been hospitalized for three months to treat open wounds on her foot as a result of diabetes.

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