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Primary health care in the indigenous heartland of Delta Amacuro in Venezuela

Venezuela

Our teams travel by motorboat to provide medical care to communities living on the banks of the Orinoco River in Delta Amacuro state, northeastern Venezuela. The journey can only be made by river and it takes hours to get from one place to another. Venezuela, 22 May 2023.
© Matias Delacroix
In Venezuela, where hospitals across the country lack staff, supplies, and basic services, we rehabilitate facilities and provide general and specialist healthcare.

Our teams provide healthcare in Amazonas, Anzoátegui, Bolívar, Miranda, Táchira and Capital District, where we give technical support to public health facilities as needed, such as assistance with surveillance, setting up isolation areas and triage systems, and strengthening the emergency response.
 
Most of our work is focused on strengthening general and specialist healthcare, such sexual and reproductive health and vaccinations. We also distribute medicines to patients and health facilities, train healthcare workers and have upgraded the infrastructure of health facilities by improving waste disposal, water distribution and sanitation.
 
In states with high levels of malaria, we continue to run prevention and treatment programmes, including early diagnosis and vector control. This has resulted in a considerable reduction in cases.

Our activities in 2023 in Venezuela

Data and information from the International Activity Report 2023.

MSF in Venezuela in 2023 With the socio-economic crisis in Venezuela showing no sign of abating in 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continued to fill gaps in healthcare and rehabilitate health facilities across the country.
Venezuela IAR map 2023
Country map for the IAR 2023.
© MSF
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