Haiti: In Leogane, Venezuelan doctors go to the people

[Mika]

Haiti: In Leogane, Venezuelan doctors go to the people
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_59412.shtml

To reach as many persons as possible from the Leogane population, Venezuelan doctors are taking a new approach: to go to the people.

According to Mr. Emiliano Melero, the coordinator of the Venezuelan doctors, his colleagues are going to the people instead of waiting for the people to come to them.

“By contrast to other groups of foreign doctors, we visit the dwellings of citizens so that we may assist a greater number of people with their sanitation needs”, Mr. Emiliano Melero informed us.

In fact, since their arrival after January 12th in Haiti, the group of Venezuelan doctors have examined 30,000 persons. Five thousand others have been vaccinated, and 15,000 have already benefited from the support of these South American doctors.

These doctors, who are in the cities of Leogane, Petit-Goave, and Jacmel, belong to a group named “Batallion 51”. They came to this country after the disaster of January 12th with the aim of helping the Haitian population.

In addition to this contigent of doctors, Venezuela, to express its solidarity with our country, has sent a group of public health experts to Haiti.

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[subsuelo]

1. an insightful comment in the Editors Note...

"It may be that many doctors in the west feel threatened by these Cuban and Venezuelan doctors whose highest rewards are humanistic rather than financial. Perhaps they pose an unintended threat to their western colleagues to both, their inflated incomes and their prestige.
... many western physicians have become technicians more than healers in the capitalist system where their primary reward is money"

imo it's just pure stupidity to accept health care being a for-profit system. Let me say that there is no ideological agenda behind saying so; for me, it's just stating the obvious!

[Mika]

2. I agree.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

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