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Brazil to Send 40 Tonnes of Dialysis Supplies to Venezuela on Jan. 9

The move aims to sustain care for 16,000 Venezuelan dialysis patients after strikes damaged key medical facilities.

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Overview

  • A Venezuelan aircraft is scheduled to collect the shipment at São Paulo’s Guarulhos Airport on Friday morning.
  • The load includes dialysis materials, medications and saline solutions sourced from university and philanthropic hospitals.
  • The delivery is the first tranche of a broader 300-tonne relief effort coordinated with PAHO/OPAS.
  • Brazil has deployed Força Nacional do SUS teams to Roraima to assess border health capacity, with officials reporting no migration surge so far.
  • Health officials in Brazil say domestic care for roughly 170,000 hemodialysis patients will not be affected, while Venezuelan authorities report attacks destroyed a main dialysis center and hit a La Guaira distribution hub, with about 100 deaths claimed.