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Bolivarian Government intended 9% of its national budget to health


President Hugo Chavez said that this investment is one of the highest in the world. In this way, unlike previous governments that only 2.8% of the budget earmarked for health

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• 11 new rooms, operating rooms opened in the Hospital Universitario de Maracaibo

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Caracas, March 24, 2008 / In the past nine years, the Bolivarian Government has given priority to health and the proof is that 9% of the national budget to this sector, said the head of state, Hugo Chávez.

also stressed the construction of 15 hospitals and through the mission Barrio Adentro III, the Executive is equipping a first stage 130 health centers in the country with nearly 40 000 brand new equipment and technology.

The Head of State also expressed complete satisfaction with the opening of 11 brand new operating rooms at the Hospital Universitario de Maracaibo, in Zulia state, which conducts an average of 320 to 330 surgeries a year.

Hugo Chavez made the proviso that in the last five years have been opened as part of Barrio Adentro Mission I, II and III, primary care modules, Integral Diagnostic Center (CDI), recovery rooms and centers of high technology at a pace of a facility per day, while a rest day on average in recent years.

Another point highlighted by the president's national training and medical training. Nine years ago there were 20 doctors per 100 thousand inhabitants and today there are 59 doctors per 100 thousand inhabitants.

pointed out that over the next five years 25 000 doctors will graduate.

Shar / VTV

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