Venezuela Medical aid

Venezuela Venezuela has a mixed health care system, based the two systems of medical institutions - private and public. Community hospitals provide a full range of general services, but many of them there was a clear lack of medicines. Also known economic difficulties the country led to the fact that a number of clinics is in fairly poor condition. There has acute shortage of nurses, especially in the provinces, so the Venezuelan government obliges the graduates work off two years of his profile in the village, which also does not solve the problem of understaffing. The most recent public hospitals are located in the capital. First aid is provided free of charge and sufficient qualified for all subsequent calls to the doctors need to pay commercial rates.

Private clinics are perfectly equipped, but quite expensive, so their services are usually resorted citizens who have a health insurance policy.

Venezuela has a relatively underdeveloped system of ambulances, especially - on the road, so there is great risk of serious damage from accidents.

Local people are quite stable custom treatment of diseases with traditional methods, often it gives better results than in the most modern hospitals. Especially this method of treatment is good in case of defeat poisons native animals and plants, poisoning and certain infectious diseases. And besides the usual herbs, is widely used narcotic drugs, and various spiritual practices, such as "malikai" - a set of rituals to communicate with the spirit of disease, and its expulsion from the patient's body. Use the services of local shamans and psychics are not recommended, but local doctors using Phytotreatment, had the reputation of a very effective healers.

Health insurance is not mandatory, but strongly recommended.

Required and recommended immunizations
For all foreigners arriving from areas with yellow fever require inoculation against the disease. Especially those measures recommended for those tourists who intend to visit the valley of the Orinoco River, the states of Amazonas, Apure and Delta Amacuro, as well as areas adjacent to the south to Lake Maracaibo.

For all the tourists traveling outside the major cities in the country, it is recommended immunization against cholera, hepatitis B and D (especially in the areas of the delta of the Orinoco), rabies, tetanus, typhoid fever, American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease), mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, tetanus and measles. Pathogens schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis and lung fluke disease recorded in the northern central part of the country - are advised to avoid swimming in the local fresh water (water in swimming pools normally chlorinated and safe). In the south-eastern regions is some danger of mercury in river water. In forest areas are particularly dangerous viral encephalitis, rabies, brucellosis, filariasis, onchocerciasis, and American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease), so with particular caution should be taken to the products of animal origin and to the very wild animals.

Other dangers
The risk of malaria (P. vivax) exists throughout the year in the rural areas of Apure, Amazonas, Sucre, Tachira and Bolivar, as well as around Barinas. Scope resistant to chloroquine forms of P.falciparum limited areas of the jungle in the Amazonas (around Atabapo), the southern region of Bolivar and rainforests Delta Amacuro. Advisable to carry insect repellents and settle in the hotels, whose rooms are always equipped with mosquito nets ( "Toldo" or "moskitero").

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