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Venezuela The general climate of protests persists in Venezuela when it is celebrated today one year after being elected the pro-government National Constituent Assembly ( ANC), an organ that does not recognize many governments of the world and, according to the ruling Chavism, bring "peace" to the Caribbean nation.
Hundreds of nurses, doctors and other health workers from Venezuela demonstrated on Monday. at the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Caracas to "denounce the serious crisis" affecting the health sector in the country.
The workers, who have already added 36 days of protests, have ensured that its goal is not only to obtain improvements in their wages and working conditions, but also to ensure the health of workers. patients, who in many cases have to pay for syringes in hospitals.
Francisco Valencia, rector of Codevida, a coalition for the defense of the right to health, denounced that the drugs were imported into the country to treat transplant patients "only in the capital."
"And the rest of the country what? If we have to go to Miraflores (presidential palace), we will go, but with concrete solutions," said the activist.
Valencia explained to Efe that until now, there is a statement that has been issued by the OPS to hospitals. But guilds do not know the scope of this help.
He also notes that they receive daily "reports of people dying (…) who have irreversible consequences on their health for lack of drugs", a situation that he describes as "scandalous". ".
The protest of health workers began more than a month ago claiming salary improvements, because they ensure that they receive a monthly income equal to or slightly above the minimum, who is currently raising 5 196 000 bolivars (30 or $ 1.80 depending on the exchange rate used), which is not enough to buy a kilo of meat.
Over the days, patients, with their own complaints, they added to the protests.
Caesar Hurtado, a patient with Parkinson's disease, told Efe that he had been living with this disease for 24 years when he was taking medication or "noticing" the symptoms, but in recent months " been serious "looking for his treatment.
" I'm taking ( treatment ) (…) because a neighbor is dead and I inherited his pills ]
Today, there have also been dozens of protests from citizens who have had enough of the terrible public service delivery
In Petare, the largest favela of Latin America and located in Caracas, hundreds of residents of the Píritu sector cut the streets in the demand for the return of water service, which they ensured for at least two years.
"We have 2 years without receiving water service by pipeline, we made the denunciations (…), but they say the old Go The hell that came out destroyed everything, "said the defendant Carolina Urbina to the online news channel VIVOplay, referring to the administration of the former mayor of the opposition Carlos Ocariz
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At a public ceremony in Caracas, members and former members of the Constituent Assembly recalled the "historic" victory that they won last year. the elections, in which they claim to have obtained more than eight million votes.
These results, however, were questioned by the Venezuelan opposition and by several governments after the company providing technical support to the National Electoral Council was informed. that his number of votes was lower than that announced.
Meanwhile, the country expects to implement the recent economic measures announced by President Nicolás Maduro, which include a currency conversion, a census vehicle for "rational use" of gasoline and the revision of the law of changes, a tool that has been in force since 2003.
The Energy and Oil Committee of the Venezuelan Parliament, majority of opposition, considered today that the announcement of the carrying out of a vehicular census obeys a "rationing policy" which will also be used for "political control" .EFE
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