Since the creation of the Venezuelan health mission Barrio Adentro, thousands of Cuban medical professionals have provided quality health care for some of Venezuela's poorest communities.
At 7am every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, a Cuban with the Mission Barrio Adentro Sports sets himself up in a nearby plaza to give an exercise class to any of those who'd like to attend. In the afternoons, another Cuban runs dance-exercise classes in the park, something that has become quite popular. He also often facilitates chess games at our community events.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has expressed his “suspicions” over the number of left wing Latin American presidents who have acquired cancer recently.
Venezuela's government has offered to pay for the removal of breast implants feared to be at risk of rupture. The implants, made by French firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) had been imported illegally.
The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, signed on Monday the decrees to enact the Debt Law 2012, the reform to the Medicine Practice Law, the Organic Law against Racial Discrimination, and the Law on the Rational and Efficient Use of Energy.
Excerpts from a documentary on Venezuela's ELAM (Latin Amercan School of Medicine), the 'daughter' of the Cuban ELAM, but with some different features.
Venezuelan students marched in Caracas this Saturday in support of the National Program of Integral Community Medicine, created by the Bolivarian Government in 2005.
After a reform to the Medical Practice Law, the new integral community doctors, trained through the Mission Sucre and Barrio Adentro programs, have legal recognition. 8,200 students will be the first to graduate next month.
Speaking to Venezuelan health minister Eugenia Sader this Sunday, president Hugo Chávez confirmed that creating a “totally free and quality” national health service was a current priority for the revolutionary government.
