President Nicolás Maduro highlighted the need to prevent breast and cervical cancer, in addition to “a policy to accelerate and improve preventive and care measures.” According to the latest study published by the Venezuelan Anticancer Society, in 2021, 3,128 Venezuelans died from this disease, a rate of 19.01 per 100,000 inhabitants. In addition, 7,885 new cases were registered, a rate of 47.91
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reported this Tuesday the 25th on the creation of a Comprehensive Cancer Center and “pharmacy for women”, in addition to promising “all the support of the Bolivarian revolution” to treat breast and cervical cancer, the main causes death of women in Venezuela.
From the Miraflores Palace, in a speech for the “national day of feminist socialism”, the president approved the creation of the Comprehensive Oncology Center for Women and showed the first ‘Farmamujer oncológica’, located on Urdaneta Avenue in the Libertador municipality, in Caracas, which will have a care capacity of 2,300 women.
During the presentation of a report called ‘Route for Venezuelan women’, the Venezuelan government official also approved a proposal for comprehensive health care for women, which consists of equipping and rehabilitating 17 comprehensive care and training centers for women, especially for the detection and treatment of breast and cervical cancer.
It also authorized the acquisition of 20 mobile gynecological units, and the provision of four more; as well as the expansion of Farmamujer, the appropriation of emotional and psychological containment aid for women with cancer (wigs, turbans, bras, compression sleeves), and the creation and implementation of a permanent communication campaign for prevention and training for female population aged 15 and over about this disease.
Maduro highlighted the need to prevent these types of cancer, in addition to “a policy to accelerate and improve preventive and care measures.” According to the latest study published by the Venezuelan Anticancer Society, in 2021, 3,128 Venezuelans died from this disease, a rate of 19.01 per 100,000 inhabitants. In addition, 7,885 new cases were registered, a rate of 47.91.
The Anticancer Society also noted the screening for breast cancer among Venezuelan women is lowwhich carries the risk of not giving timely treatment to this disease.
Breast cancer patients and other types they have protested several times this year to demand a regular supply to public and oncology hospitals, as well as the repair of equipment necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of this disease. Treatment in the private sector costs more than four thousand dollars, which is an uphill battle for many women.
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Another of the points of the route is against gender violence. Vice President Delcy Rodríguez asserted that “Venezuela is a country that is distinguished by the care of its women (…) there is still a long way to go but that goes through the family, through education at home, so that words are not violent” .
The figures don’t help the Venezuelan government either. A total of 151 women were murdered in the first eight months of the year for reasons of gender, which yields an average of one femicide every 38 hours, according to a report by the organization utopix.
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