Mission Barrio Adentro
Venezuelan social welfare program / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mission Barrio Adentro (English: Mission Into the Neighborhood) is a Venezuelan social welfare program established by the President Hugo Chávez. Through Misión Barrio Adentro, Cuban doctors served Venezuelan communities where Venezuela's mostly white medical staff refused to work.
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Of a planned 8,500 Barrio Adentro I centers, 2,708 had been built by May 2007, using an investment of around US$126 million, with a further 3,284 under construction.[1]
In Caracas, Mission Barrio Adentro I and II centers in 32 parishes were the subject of constant complaints regarding performance even after receiving 1.492 million bolívares from the government.[2] As of December 2014, it was estimated that 80% of Barrio Adentro establishments were abandoned in Venezuela,[3] with the majority of Cuban medical personnel leaving the country.[4]
By the end of 2015, the Bolivarian government reported that one in three of Venezuelan patients admitted to public health facilities that year died.[5] In October 2016, the Miami Herald reported that hundreds of doctors were being recalled by the Cuban government, allegedly due to a lack of payments by Venezuela.[6]