The World Health Organization (WHO) is preparing 32 projects to strengthen Venezuela’s health system, a spokesperson announced.
“We are debating with the Ministry of People’s Power for Health where the priorities are to be able to intervene in the areas of comprehensive community health, strengthen management capacities, development, delivery of medicines and medical supplies, and recover infrastructures,” said Cristian Morales. Globovisión television channel.
Morales, who is also the representative in Venezuela of the Pan American Health Organization, explained that the 32 projects will support “almost 600 comprehensive community health areas”.
The support, he said, “is in the form of drugs and medical supplies strengthen the capacity of health centers, comprehensive diagnostic centers” and also “in the training required by the human resources in health“.
“We have to build training and education scenarios, improve the living conditions of human resources who have worked for many years in very complex conditions, which have worsened with the covid-19 pandemic,” he said.
According to Cristian Morales, it is also necessary to “strengthen management capa WHO prepares 32 projects to strengthen the Venezuelan health system
The World Health Organization (WHO) is preparing 32 projects to strengthen Venezuela’s health system, a spokesperson announced.
city, to improve the way in which health resources and institutions are managed, and the important relationship between the health system and the community.”
On the other hand, he explained that throughout Latin America, health systems “are mainly characterized by being highly fragmented,” serving different populations, workers in the formal, informal, and private sectors, with “segmentation according to employment status” and ability to to pay”.
They are also “health systems with a high percentage of private spending that comes out of people’s pockets, which is inefficient” because, “when we face a disease and we have to pay with the little we have, many times we fall into poverty or we cannot get ahead.” of poverty,” Morales said.
Source: Observadora
