Exhausted but relieved, Yariani Flores lay next to her healthy newborn son, along with four other Venezuelan women who just gave birth in a hospital in Colombia's border city of Cucuta.
Thousands of Venezuelan women have done the same over the past few years, as the health system in their home country has crumbled. They crossed the border, driven by fear that they or their babies could die.
Early in her pregnancy, Flores sought a prenatal checkup at a municipal hospital in Venezuela's frontier state of Tachira only to be told that there was little point.
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