21.   Malnutrition among children became widespread, and most hospitals lacked the power and medical supplies to treat the ill.

22.   Maurice Ope, the chief physician in Nyamira, said the hospital lacks enough doctors and nurses to deal with the workload.

23.   Many hospitals lack basic items such as needles, gauze and sutures.

24.   Many hospitals lack needles, gauze, medicine and other basic supplies.

25.   North Korea also needs international help to tackle a severe tuberculosis problem, and hospitals lack electricity, water, equipment and drugs, she said.

26.   North Korean hospitals also lack disposable syringes and medicine.

27.   Public hospitals lack supplies as basic as needles, Venezuelans pay bribes for drivers licenses, telephone hookups, even operations at crowded hospitals.

28.   Some hospitals lacked anesthetic, and painkilling drugs had to be bought from markets.

29.   Some streets are open sewers, and the state-run hospital lacks equipment.

30.   The doctors have no plans to operate at present because the main chest surgeon has left the country and the hospital lacks oxygen required for such surgery.