Unreported World: Find My Kid Drugs

Series 30, episode 0

Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Patrick Wells travel to Venezuela, where they join a family's frantic door-to-door search for medicines for their desperately ill daughter. This family is one among thousands affected by the severe shortages of drugs and medical equipment across the country. Unreported World visits a hospital lacking items as basic as antibiotics and where doctors who speak out are labelled as anti-revolutionaries. The programme reveals how one of the world's biggest oil producers has been crippled by economic disaster