The president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, met this Wednesday with a representative of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in order to establish “technical cooperation guidelines” to “strengthen the health sector” of the country.
According to a presidential press release, Rodríguez met with the PAHO representative in Venezuela, Armando De Negri Filho, at the Miraflores Palace, headquarters of the Executive, and the Venezuelan Minister of Health, Nuramy Gutiérrez, also attended the meeting.
“The meeting reaffirms the collaboration agenda between the Bolivarian government and international health organizations, in search of increasing the quality and efficiency of healthcare services in the national territory,” the note highlights, without giving more information.
In the last year, Venezuela has received donations of polio vaccines, pentavalent, SRP, PCV10 and rotavirus from several countries such as India, South Korea, Russia, Brazil and others.
In 2024, the Venezuelan Society of Childcare and Pediatrics indicated that “in the last 10 years the Expanded Immunization Program (PAI) has not been able to achieve the proposed goals in terms of vaccine coverage” in Venezuela.
Likewise, he pointed out that “the indicators of new vaccines and updating of the scheme show that (the) PAI (of) Venezuela is very behind in the incorporation of new vaccines.”
