The president of the National Academy of Medicine pointed out that patients suffer a “via crucis” once they manage to obtain the money and supplies to undergo a surgical intervention.
Huníades Urbina, president of the National Academy of Medicine, and director of the José María Vargas School of Medicine of the UCV, stated in an interview with VPItv that the health sector closes the year with a very significant deficit and with very poor attention due to lack of supplies in regarding quantity and availability.
In this sense, the specialist pointed out that there are a large number of patients in hospitals that increase the waiting list for care. “Especially in the surgical part, that distresses many of us because waiting time is useful life time and lost in the recovery of a patient in any of their pathologies.”
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Urbina pointed out that patients suffer a “via crucis” once they manage to obtain the money and supplies to undergo a surgical intervention. “When they get the money, they find that in some hospitals there is an operating room, but there is no anesthesiologist or vice versa.”
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He added that, according to the National Hospital Survey, which carries out the 40 main medical centers in the country, the delay for gallbladder surgery, which is one of the most common, places 7% of patients in a year of waiting and 22% between eight and 12 months. “That is to say, 30% of patients with gallbladder problems are delayed.”
He highlighted that 26% of patients wait for prostate surgery and recalled that this is one of the main cancers in men. Urbina indicated that 18% of women with breast cancer are also waiting for surgical interventions.
The president of the National Academy of Medicine reiterated that the health system is broken and Venezuela is going through a complex humanitarian emergency according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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