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.
Revolutionary Eduardo Saman was replaced as commerce minister following pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to protect old patent legislation and their profits. The information, which came out in a US embassy cable released by Wikileaks, has prompted renewed public debate in Venezuela on the medicine patency issue.
On Wednesday Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed the formal “intervention” of one of the largest public hospitals in the opposition-governed state of Tachira.
Venezuela’s government announced Tuesday that the country’s private hospitals agreed to temporarily freeze their fees while officials seek ways to contain healthcare costs and increase access for the poor.
