Healthcare in Venezuela Healthcare in Venezuela The Bolivarian Missions are a series of social justice, social welfare, anti-poverty, and educational programs implemented under the administration of the current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. They draw their name from the historical Venezuelan hero Simón Bolívar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bolivarian Missions"
This is a list of hospitals in Venezuela. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of hospitals in Venezuela"
Mission Barrio Adentro ("Mission Into the Neighborhood") is a Bolivarian social welfare program established under current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez that provides comprehensive free health care, dental care, and sports training to poor and traditionally underserved communities in Venezuela. Mission Barrio Adentro features the mass construction of thousands of distinctive two-storey medical clinics — consultorios or doctor’s offices — as well as their staffing with an assortment of certified medical professionals who are required to live in or near the clinic itself. Mission Barrio Adentro thus constitutes an attempt to deliver a de facto form of universal healthcare that seeks guaranteed access to quality and cradle-to-grave medical attention for all Venezuelan citizens. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mission Barrio Adentro"
Mision Hábitat ("Mission Habitat") is a Venezuelan Bolivarian Mission that has as its goal the construction of thousands of new housing units for the poor. The program also seeks to develop agreeable and integrated housing zones that make available a full range of social services — from education to healthcare — which likens its vision to that of New Urbanism. Critics have criticized the slow rate of construction (less than 10,000 housing units built over the last six years, the duration of Hugo Chávez's tenure). ...more on Wikipedia about "Mission Habitat"
Plan Bolívar 2000 (launched 27 February 1999) was the first of the Bolivarian Missions enacted under of administration of current Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The plan involved around 40,000 Venezuelan soldiers involved in door-to-door anti-poverty activities, including mass vaccinations, food distribution in slum areas, and education. The program also transported thousands of poor and ill Venezuelans at cost by military cargo planes and helicopters, as a means of alleviating their domestic travel expenses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Plan Bolivar 2000"
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