Years after the failure of the Barrio Adentro Mission and hiding behind the application of sanctions by the United States, Maduro affirms that the State complies as best it can with the needs of the population in terms of health, despite the poor condition in which it is find public health
President Nicolás Maduro celebrated this Friday, March 31, the 1st International Health Fairan event in which public and private companies from the health sector met to present innovations, from where they requested a closer relationship with private entrepreneurs who produce drugs.
«I call on all private companies linked to the production of medicines, medicines, medical equipment. I call on you to work hand in hand, to never be separated, “he declared during the ceremony.
With this petition, Maduro relegates the production of medicines to the private sector and gives prominence to private medicine, once demonized by Chavismo, which promised free healthcare with plans such as the Barrio Adentro Mission, which promised to bring primary care to every corner of the country. .
Years later and hiding behind the application of sanctions by the United States, Maduro affirms that the State complies as best it can with the needs of the population in terms of health, despite the poor condition of public health in the country. .
In the same way, he celebrated that the companies became “independent” by operating with “their own money”, arguing that in the past they maintained their operations by requesting allocations of dollars through the system of the National Currency Administration Commission (Cadivi). , with which it was possible to access foreign currency at a preferential price, a mechanism that generated dozens of corruption schemes in public organizations that are now being investigated internationally. On corruption, in addition, Maduro did not utter a single word in his speech of more than an hour.
“Private companies in Venezuela already produce without the need for the Cadivi dollar. Every year they were given at least 1,000 million dollars by Cadivi, to bring medicines from abroad or to bring the active ingredients”, he stressed.
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The Chavismo leader assured that the United States persecutes any company that tries to sell medicines to Venezuela, despite the fact that the measures applied by Washington only weigh against the Maduro administration and the oil industry.
«The country was persecuted so that it could not buy medicines. The United States personally called all the companies that produce antiviral medicines of anticovid vaccines in the world to tell them that if they sold to Venezuela they could be sanctioned,” he said without mentioning the debt that Venezuela contracted with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which would distribute doses in Venezuela.
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