Experiencing Health Care as a Human Right in Venezuela

The premise of Misión Barrio Adentro is simple: doctors live and work in communities providing health services free of charge to anyone.(1) In the span of four years, Barrio Adentro added 1612 modules (with 4618 under construction) to the 4,800 existing public ambulatory clinics.(2) The national goal is to have one primary care doctor for every 1250 to 2500 habitants. While Cuban doctors currently cover a large portion of this health need, new medical schools are training over 17,000 Venezuelan youth to become doctors. A corollary training program has around 3,000 Venezuelan doctors in a postgraduate residency community medicine. It’s one thing to look at the numbers, but does this massive expansion of primary health through Misión Barrio Adentro actually work?

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Hi to all friends paying high health care insurance and to answer the question does health care works in Venezuela? The answer is yes it does.

Today I went to check my eyes as I am experiencing some difficulties reading. Some friends gave me names and phone numbers of private doctors and at the same time I heard them talking about the prices they have paid for their reading glasses. The price range they where talking about was from 800 to 1500 USD and this are regular glasses. Imagine if you would have something specials happening with your eyes.

Any way, I believe in the revolution and so I decided do see for myself how does free health care works.

Below picture is prove of it. I did not pay a cent. I was treated better than in a private hospital.

Now I can read better so I hope to be writing more often.

Chao

All people have a right to health care, education, social protection provided free from the state.