Monday, March 24, 2008

Venezuelan public health services will benefit from the delivery of 40,000 advanced technology equipment to 130 hospitals

Caracas, Mar 24 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan public health services will benefit from the delivery of 40,000 advanced technology equipment to 130 hospitals throughout the country, Venezuelan President of the Republic Hugo Chávez said Monday.

In the frame of the inauguration of 11 operation rooms in the University of Maracaibo, state of Zulia, the leader said that the recovery of assistance centers is part of the Barrio Adentro III Mission.

The initiative arose because of the difficult situation in the health institutions, because the sectors of social attention were privatized with capitalism, Chávez said.

During his tour on the installation, Chavez remembered that in the last years, modules of primary attention, 495 rehabilitation rooms, 409 centers of integral diagnosis and 18 high technology rooms have been inaugurated.

Also, the construction of six of the 15 new hospitals scheduled in the public health strategy will begin, he said.

Only this Monday, Chávez added, we are acting in six assistance centers, to which 1,219 new equipment and accesories were given, for an investment of 33 million strong bolivares (15 million dollars).

The revolution, the Venezuelan leader said, assumes this responsibility and the effort will be made for the best first quality attention in health, in education, in life for the entire people of Venezuela.

Nine years ago there was a proportion of 20 doctors for each 100,000 inhabitants, while at the present time the indicator goes up to 59.3 percent, Chávez highlighted.

Together with this, primary attention of health already increases to 95 percent of the population, he concluded.





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