1.   The hospital lacked even the most basic medical equipment.

2.   Hospitals lack even basic drugs for surgical operations.

3.   And, in any case, the hospitals lack the food and proper nutritional supplements.

4.   A major reason for the spread in poorer countries appears to be that hospitals often lack adequate supplies of needles and syringes, making their reuse necessary.

5.   Across Venezuela, public hospitals lack supplies.

6.   But the hospital lacks enough beds and medicine.

7.   Hospitals lack even simple technology, like Internet access, that would enable them to receive and report information in the event of an emergency.

8.   Hospitals lack even the most basic medicines, and infections spread rapidly.

9.   Hospitals lack equipment and drugs, blankets and food, heat and hot water.

10.   Other hospitals lack wheelchairs and gurneys.