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stevegc

(17 posts)
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 08:22 AM 14 hrs ago

Brazil to send medical supplies to dialysis center destroyed in U.S. bombing of Venezuela

Brazil’s government will send urgently needed supplies for dialysis patients in Venezuela after a U.S. bombing destroyed a center responsible for renal treatment and medicine distribution. The announcement was made on Monday (5) by Health Minister Alexandre Padilha during a press conference in Brasília.

“We are mobilizing, through our public health system and in coordination with private companies in Brazil, dialysis supplies and essential medicines,” Padilha said. “This is humanitarian support for the Venezuelan people, whose distribution center was attacked.”

According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the U.S. airstrike destroyed a facility in the state of La Guaira that served both as a medicine depot and a treatment center for kidney patients.

Padilha stressed the humanitarian and reciprocal nature of the assistance. He recalled that during the collapse of oxygen supplies in Manaus at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Venezuela sent 135,000 cubic meters of oxygen to Brazil to save lives. In 2021, the Venezuelan government coordinated directly with Amazonas state authorities to deliver oxygen trucks, after Brazil’s federal government at the time refused to accept the aid.

Read more at link:

https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/01/06/brazil-to-send-medical-supplies-to-dialysis-center-destroyed-in-u-s-bombing-of-venezuela/

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Brazil to send medical supplies to dialysis center destroyed in U.S. bombing of Venezuela (Original Post) stevegc 14 hrs ago OP
Thank you Brazil malaise 14 hrs ago #1
Was that by "accident"? AloeVera 14 hrs ago #2
caracas needs many many tons of canned goods, medicine lapfog_1 13 hrs ago #3

AloeVera

(4,000 posts)
2. Was that by "accident"?
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 08:32 AM
14 hrs ago

Perhaps there were Chavista terrorists hiding there, embedded with dialysis patients who were human shields?

lapfog_1

(31,664 posts)
3. caracas needs many many tons of canned goods, medicine
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 08:53 AM
13 hrs ago

and flashlights, batteries, generators.

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