About 92,000 scientists, doctors, engineers and architects have emigrated from Venezuela in recent years

About 92,000 scientists, doctors, engineers and architects have emigrated from Venezuela in recent years, denounced this Monday the opposition led by Juan Guaidó, who considered that this departure of specialists is “a great flight of talent”.

“At least 92,000 scientists, doctors, engineers and architects have emigrated from Venezuela in recent years. Without a doubt, a great talent drain“, Wrote the former opposition deputy Carlos Valero on his Twitter account.

For this reason, he considered that “Political change is urgently needed in the country, so that every Venezuelan who has left returns“And, in this way, an alternative can be built for the nation.

According to the UN, around 5.7 million Venezuelans have left their country in search of a better future in the face of the crisis that the oil nation is going through.

Colombia is the country that has received the most migrants, about 1.7 million, followed by Peru (1 million) and the United States (465,000), according to the United Nations regional platform for interagency coordination.

Due to this migration, as he recently explained to Efe the executive director of the NGO Médicos Unidos de Venezuela (MUV), Jorge Lorenzo, with trade union studies, showed that “32,000 doctors had left “in March 2020at the start of the pandemic.

In the specialty of bioanalysis and nursing, until December 2020, there had been an exodus of 60 to 70% of all professionals in these sectors.

This situation, added to the deaths of health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which different organizations and unions reported that they did not have sufficient protective equipment, they led the MUV to warn that the country is running out of “toilets”.

Faced with this situation, Lorenzo warned last May that, since December, “health workers have started to migrate again without leaving the country, looking for other work alternatives”. “Some went into the private sector, others started caring for patients at home and others left health care to work in something else,” he said.

On the other hand, Slow COVID-19 vaccination in Venezuela added to Sputnik V dose shortage, the drug for which the regime agreed with Russia to send ten million units and of which only received, publicly, 1,430,000. Today, the vaccine appears like a phantom, as an unknown number of citizens await, without certainty, the second dose.

The delay has been going on for weeks and the country’s authorities have yet to take action, despite the fact that many citizens – mostly people over the age of 60 – They were due to inject the second dose at 21 days, but they have been waiting for almost two months.

(With information from EFE)

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