Venezuela Vaccinates
People against 14 Diseases
CARACAS - In about 40 days, as many as 95
percent of the Venezuelan population will
have been vaccinated against 14 diseases, an
effort President Hugo Chavez includes in the
process of preventive medical care.
About 70,000 members of the Health Brigade,
medicine students, military, and members of
community councils will visit 6.24 million
homes to vaccinate children and adults.
Chavez indicated these are the basis of what
today is preventive medicine, encouraged
since 1893 by Cuban patriot Jose Marti when
he affirmed "true medicine is not the one
that heals but the one that prevents."
In his regular column Chavez' Lines, the
president stressed that the same spirit of
Marti's words today guides the re-encouraged
Enlarged Immunization Program nationwide.
The plan started last Wednesday in Caracas
is intended to create that healthy body that
must be our nation, to be able to establish
the new society on solid basis.
The National Public Health System being
created was born to deeply correct one of
the largest social imbalances inherited in
the country, he noted. |
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