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Many pregnant women in Venezuela are crossing the border into neighboring countries to give birth due to lack of medical supplies, food, or medical care in Venezuelan hospitals Lack of basic medicine and equipment is causing preventable deaths and maternity is a very high risk for women—especially, since there are no blood banks in the event of excessive bleeding Hospitals frequently have water and electricity outages and only 7% of emergency services are fully operative Maternal mortality is estimated to have increase by 65% from 2013 to 2016, and unsafe abortions have contributed to 20% of preventable maternal deaths According to Amnesty International, causes of the increase in maternal deaths include a diminished medical supply of anticoagulants, scar healing scream, painkillers, antibiotics, antiseptics, lack of basic medical tools and equipment, and lack of medical personnel able and willing to work with no equipment A city on the Colombian-Venezuela border, has received 14,000 Venezuelan patients at the Erasmo Meoz since 2016 and is expecting to receive even more In this hospital, 75% percent of the newborns born in the first two months of the year 2019 were Venezuelans The situation has strained the budget of these hospitals, putting Erasmo Meoz 14 million dollars into debt While Colombia is the most impacted since it shared a border, women are also traveling to Brazil to give birth The number of births of Venezuelan babies attended to in Boa Vista, Brazil has increased from 700 in 2014 to 50,000 in 2017 Venezuelan mothers have also been fleeing to neighboring Peru and Ecuador. Colombia’s citizenship required that Colombian citizens be born to at least one Colombian parent or be born to foreign parents who meet residence requirements and are eligible to become citizens Due to the influx of Venezuelan babies being born in Colombia and the Venezuelan government’s inability to issue citizenship, Colombia has introduced a new measure that will give these Colombian-born newborns Colombian citizenship to avoid ‘statelessness’ The measure went into effect August 2019 and includes babies of Venezuelan parents born in Colombia starting in January 2015 (giving citizenship to approximately 27,000 babies born in Colombia over the past 4 years)