The deputy to the Legislative Council of Bolívar State in southern Venezuela and the Sectional Secretary General of ‘Acción Democrática’ (AD, Democratic Action), Freddy Valera, denounced through a press release the serious shortage of medicines and supplies in the hospitals and outpatient clinics of all the state, a situation that has transformed healthcare, far from a right and duty of the State, into a luxury that most citizens cannot afford.