Humanitarian Health Crisis
Many people in Venezuela are dying due to the shortage of medicine and food. Health crisis is becoming each day worse. The government instead of fixing this problem or at least do something, they are making it worse since they are basically the reason why Venezuela is going through this. My solution for this situation is that because the government won't do anything to provide humanitarian health and medicine, I believe that we the people have the power to change Venezuela, starting with the health crisis that is making many people dead. There is two things that we can do to help the health crisis in Venezuela: Create more outside Venezuela Organizations to recollect money, food, clothes, medicine and spread the
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“Seventy-two percent of Venezuelans report having lost weight in the past year because of such shortages” (Ellis, 3). This means, that many people are losing weight due to lacking of resources, and lack of food. The shortage is so strong that the lack of medicine is deathal. Many people are dying because medicine is nowhere to be found and medical instruments are also lacking. Hospitals are full filled with many people who need surgeries and medicines and the doctors don't know what else to do but to send many back home. According to Sarah Stevens, staff writer, ever since Nicolas Maduro became the president, the crisis has got worse day by day. “Since 2014, Venezuela has experienced a major public health crisis fueled by a dire lack of resources that has left thousands of people without access to lifesaving care. Hospitals are filled with patients who need emergency surgery and treatment. But medical cabinets are completely devoid of the resources necessary — from simple antibiotics and soap to chemotherapy drugs and X-rays. Hospitals teeming with patients sitting in half-lit hallways are turning away dozens of people each day because they are unable to provide care. Some patients have been waiting for surgery for months, often in the hospital itself” (Stevens, 1). Organizations would collect medicine and needed supplies to send to the people back there so …show more content…
This is why I believe that it is important for us to help our people, help the country that made us who we are and our only way to help right now is to provide supplies, provide money and help those who unfortunately dont have the opportunity to live like we do here: free, happy, secure but mostly, healthy. I have been in many events that Un Par Por Un Sueño created by joining with party makers like “The loop” and “ImMiamiParty” and there is no doubt that the Venezuelans in Miami don't want to contribute, because all the energy, happiness, effort and the need to help that I saw was enormous. Yet, the problem is that there needs to be more organizations since Un Par Por Un Sueño can't make every week an event. This is why we need to create them and start collecting because we have the power to
The Mexican Independence and the Venezuela Crisis have some things in common. Both historical events have short and long term effects. Both of these events were also influenced by ethical beliefs.
Cesar Chavez, one man who dramatically changed the world said, “From the depth of need despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems, and fill their own needs with dignity and strength” (ufw.org). This quote means several things. We can’t all make a difference on our own, so we need to work together, as a whole. This also means that we can organize our own problems to figure it out. It also says that we can fill our own wishes with quality and power. Chavez was an important figure in American History because he stood up for what he believed in, and wanted. In some peoples’ view, Chavez will always be a genuine hero.
Historically, Venezuela has been a considerably rich country. For instance, in the work of Cannon (2008), it is noted that Venezuela was among the richest countries in the world. All citizens experienced this richness because the population in late 18th Century and early 19th Century was considerably small. The country made an effort to buy slaves from Africa leading to over 100,000 slaves entering Venezuela. The population increased but these slaves were humiliated and stigmatized. As the population increased, the number of Venezuelans living in abject poverty increased rapidly. A large majority of income from oil and natural gas among other vast resources that Venezuela holds remained in the hands of a select few. By the end of the colonial rule, Venezuela had over 60 % of the population being Africans and an additional 25 % being from America (Cannon 2008, 735). Out of the 25 % Americans, an estimated 90 % were suspected to be of African descent. The per capita income has been historically high prior to 1992. However, Venezuela experienced a sharp decline in per capita income following the failed coup attempt by Hugo Chávez due to dwindling income to the populace. Cannon records that per capita income fell by almost half, from US $ 5192 to US $ 2858. On the other hand, human development index was noted to have fallen to 0.7046 from 0.8210 between 1990 and 1997. These challenges in economy led to Chávez’s election in 1998.
Located on the western side of South America, Peru is a relatively small country with a very strong culture. Many of the people in Peru are descendants of the people who resided on the land thousands of years ago (Lyle). Because of this, much of the culture and their way of life has stayed the same. However, quite a bit has changed in the country of Peru in recent years as well, and for the better. Medical care is an aspect of the country that has never been quite strong enough. There are several different factors that contribute to this issue, including poor water, not enough medical workers, and citizens that can’t afford to be cared for when they are sick or injured (“Peru”). Medical care has been a struggle in Peru for quite some time, but things are slowly starting to turn around for the country thanks to governmental programs and projects that have been started to help with the medical care of Peru’s citizens. Although there are several programs out there to help the citizens, the country’s health care isn’t quite efficient enough and does not adequately serve the population.
Since the 1970s, Venezuela has gone from being South America’s richest nation into a nouveau-poor society in search of an identity. Once known as the Saudis of the West, Venezuelans have seen their economic fortunes decline in exact proportion to the general fall in world oil prices. Even so, Venezuela’s many problems were hidden from view until relatively recently, when severity measures heralded the sort of economic crises so painfully familiar to other Latin American countries. Runaway inflation, currency devaluations and even food riots have marked this new phase in Venezuelan history, to which the country is still trying to adjust.
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Hugo Chavez is the duly elected leader of a relatively small country on the northern coast of South America called Venezuela. It is a nation whose regional stature has, in the last twenty years, grown in influence in total disproportion to its size. The reason for Venezuela's increasing political clout is simple. It is the owner of vast reservoirs of liquid gold. It is perched on an enormous supply of oil.
All four countries are undergoing an epidemiologic transition as treatment and control of infectious diseases continues to improve. However, the major issues that affect each country and how the country has responded to their problems are vastly different. It is funny, but in the midst of writing this reflection, I somehow found myself in a conversation with someone who was horrified by the quality of healthcare in “third world” countries. This assumption that poor countries have horrendous quality of healthcare is not uncommon. Fortunately, these assumptions are wrong. Though developing countries are facing the unique problem of operating a healthcare system in an environment with inadequate resources and public health infrastructures, they have managed to develop incredible solutions. In Latin America and the Caribbean, a combination international and national interventions has been so successful that these countries have the highest percentage of ART coverage in any low-to-middle-income countries (Garcia et al., 2014). Cuba’s WHO health ranking is 39, approximately the same as the U.S. and achieved at a fraction of the price. As countries shift into the third epidemiologic transition, many of the basic systems for obtaining medications and seeing health care professionals are already in place. These four have taken the first important step and declared that healthcare is a right for all, something that even the U.S. has failed to do. Though they must continue building upon their current infrastructure, they have the advantage of hindsight and seeing what has worked in other countries. As we have seen during our study of the U.S. and other OECD countries, there is no one perfect health system. However, I am confident that the health systems that emerge from these developing countries will be one that works for the
Simon Bolivar, or as known to many in Latin America as “the Liberator,” was a brave, smart, courageous and independent revolutionary of his time. Bolivar was a man of action and incredible intellect. During the Second National Congress of Angostura on February 15, 1819 Bolivar stood and gave an address that would form its own place in history. His “Angostura Address of 1819” is much more than just a regular speech that any politician would make throughout the course of their career. The Address gives us much insight to the feelings and political happenings of Latin America, specifically Venezuela, during the early periods after their revolution. Bolivar gives a voice to his revolutionary community in the Address and talks directly to his
The concentration of power under President Hugo Chávez has taken a heavy toll on human rights in Venezuela. School students and people are getting assaulted everyday, there is definitely a lack of fairness or human rights. It is in human nature, when we get more power we tend to abuse it weather its for good or bad. In this case, the power is being used in the wrong way. Director of Human Rights Watch's Americas division, José Miguel Vivanco said “For years, President Chávez and his followers have been building a system in which the government has free rein to threaten and punish Venezuelans who interfere with their political agenda.” People are being punished if they go against the government or have a different view about the government
Food shortages, high inflation rates, protest, and violence: one sees these headlines in a Google search of Venezuela today. All around the country, there are long lines to buy simple necessities, like bread and milk. High inflation rates lead to shortages of food supplies, which increase frustration leading to protests in the streets and, sadly, an increase of violence. The protests and violence result from the inability of Venezuelans to provide the most basic human needs for their families. Sky-rocketing inflation rates in Venezuela are the result of Hugo Chavez, the former socialist and revolutionary leader of the country, and his administration. While in power, Chavez was so consumed with fixing the social issues in Venezuela, that other aspects of the country were ignored – like the economy. In 2014, Venezuela is left with a destroyed economy, angry people, and a government that is trying to fix the many issues the country currently faces; although the government is committed to finding solutions, the people of Venezuela do not feel the government is fixing the problems fast enough.
Venezuela is a country located on the northern coast of South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, Brazil and Colombia. Venezuela is a country full of beauties and contrasts where people can find beautiful beaches, plains, mountains, and even the majestic highest waterfall of the world (Angel Falls). Also, oil rich nation, one of the upper 10 exporting countries worldwide. During more than four decades, this country lived in full democracy until 1999, when a former military officer, who was involved in a military coup years ago, Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias won the presidential elections, and who remained in the government until he died in 2013 from cancer.
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering was first published in 1944 in three separate articles in the periodical Mechanical Engineering by W. J. King. The current edition was edited by James G. Skakoon in 2001. The three original articles are combined as three chapters in the book. James G. Skakoon notes in the preface that the laws still hold true after all this time. The book focuses on different phases in the career of many engineers in the first two chapters. The final chapter deals with personal issues and advice that pertains to both engineers and engineering managers
These are also problems that many people in many other countries also face. If we work together, we may be able to help each other and make this world better. In my opinion, there are several solutions that poor countries and wealthy countries working together could implement that would benefit both. Preventing diseases is every country’s responsibility, whether they are poor or rich. Poor countries lack the knowledge and the money to gain, and expand, medical resources.
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