On June 21, the Medical Federation requested the mediation of the Public Ministry and the Ombudsman to find solutions, because the Minister of Health and president of the Venezuelan Institute of Social Security (IVSS), Magaly Gutiérrez, has not attended their complaints and demands to hold meetings to tackle the hospital crisis that the country is suffering
The president of the Venezuelan Medical Federation (FMV), Douglas León Natera, reported this Saturday, October 15, that he will report a hospital crisis situation in the country to the United Nations (UN) office in Caracas.
The decision was made due to the precariousness of the national hospital system and the refusal of the government of Nicolás Maduro to implement a health plan to recover the facilities and strengthen the health sector.
These failures are evident in the scandalous figures specified by Natera, such as the fact that 98% of the country’s hospitals have a shortage of medicines and various failures that harm patient care.
“98% of hospitals lack medicines, have faults in laboratories, reagents, inoperative wards, without power plants or water, and doctors are persecuted and put in jail for denouncing the situation,” he stressed at a press conference.
Given this current situation, León Natera requires the Government to declare a health emergency, both hospital and epidemiological, in order to work with the hospital staff on infrastructure and equipment.
“This situation of hospital crisis has been denounced by the FMV on several occasions because more than 80% of the care network, made up of 301 hospitals, has been in ruins and abandoned for many years,” he stressed.
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The representative of the Medical Federation denounced that the health crisis situation is so “serious and deadly” in the country, that many patients are transferred daily from one hospital to another without being treated, for which they die on the routes between hospitals.
The reason for not treating them is multifactorial. Most hospitals do not have medicine, water, electricity, elevators, stretchers, surgical equipment, or food for the sick. Even many emergency rooms are closed because there are no work tools. “Not even an analgesic,” León Natera highlighted.
In the absence of responses from the Government, the spokesman for the health union explained that this request will be raised within the United Nations.
On June 21, the union requested the mediation of the Public Ministry and the Ombudsman to find solutions, because the Minister of Health and president of the Venezuelan Institute of Social Security (IVSS), Magaly Gutierrezhas not responded to their complaints. However, the other entities did not respond either.
The expert notes that it is necessary to invest to recover the sector, but the budget that the Government dedicates to health is unknown. This is not surprising, considering that Chavismo decided to adopt the practice of submitting the budget to the National Assembly (AN) for approval, but keeping the approved amounts to itself.
Faced with all these problems, the Venezuelan Medical Federation insists that an urgent meeting must take place or a social table be set up that joins the health union with the administration of Nicolás Maduro.
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