mo4ch:>‘My daughter could die’: US sanctions hit Venezuelan girl’s medical treatment | Mo4ch News
Published time: 24 May, 2019 08:38Edited time: 24 May, 2019 09:34 A Venezuelan toddler’s life is in danger after sweeping US sanctions against the nation’s companies paralyzed the charity funding her medical treatment, the girl’s devastated father says.Suffering from a congenital disease, 21-month-old Isabella underwent a liver transplant at a hospital in Argentina in November.Her medical bills were covered by the Simon Bolivar Foundation, which is run by Citgo, a US subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA. In January, Washington froze around $7 billion of the company’s assets, effectively ending its charity programs.Isabella still needs specific care and her liver is already “showing a slight rejection because she didn’t continue with her treatment properly as she should have,” her father Douglas told Sputnik.The [US] blockade is directed against the people, my daughter, because she is not able to continue with her post-transplant treatment. Now she is in a life-threatening…