Nurses call on all Venezuelans to join protests in the health sector

Caracas .- The nurses, who for 22 days had been protesting for better wages and providing medical equipment and medicines to hospitals, asked citizens on Monday to join these demands, while arguing that continuing face to face".

"We call on the Venezuelan people to join the fight of the health sector (…), the right that you have to have supplies – medical equipment – in hospitals", but also at a salary that "meet basic needs," said the president of the Caracas Nurses Association, Ana Rosario Contreras.

In statements to reporters, the spokesman for the nurses' union, accompanied by various health care workers, reiterated that he would remain in protest and "face to face" until the next day. to that Nicolás Maduro's government salary, because what they earn equals "two dollars a month".

From a public hospital in the west of Caracas, where we could hear slogans such as "living wage" or "listen to people, join the fight", Contreras also indicated that the protests are respected in 90% of the cases. Efe reviewed the public health centers of the Venezuelan capital.

He also indicated that these demonstrations were also conducted inside the country.

Social networks circulate videos and photographs of protests by workers in the health sector in Carabobo, Anzoátegui, Vargas and Mérida.

He also reiterated that the health sector workers are still in talks and are organizing to go to the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, due to the lack of government responses, which has not yet occurred. paid up now only bonuses. nurses

Physicians, administrative workers and workers in the sector reiterated their concern over the economic crisis and the lack of medicines, recalling that it is the patients who have to look for drugs and materials on their own. in charge in a health center. the health

Venezuela, the country with the largest oil reserves in the world, is in a deep economic crisis that is reflected in hyperinflation, a shortage of medicines, food and failures in public services, according to Efe.

Up to now, there are small almost daily protests in the country.

On Monday, retirees protested in the state of Bolívar by demanding increases in their pensions, while in Carabobo workers and university students also demanded better wages and security of educational institutions. ;Higher Education.