Caracas, 13 sep (EFE).-the Minister of Interior and Venezuela justice, Tareck El Aisami, reported today that the militias, also called by the Government of Hugo Chávez as a “people in arms”, team ten public hospitals Caracas from next Friday to ensure the safety of doctors and patients.
“We have selected these ten hospitals because we believe that they have greater influx by users of the metropolitan area,” said El Aissami during a meeting which argued the medical profession and the executive authorities, reported the Venezuelan news agency AVN.
The Bolivarian militia was created in 2005 by presidential decree and is formed by the territorial militia, defined as the “people in arms”, and “bodies combatants”, composed of members of public institutions, universities or companies, as the State Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).
Each health center will feature a “battalion of militia” that will support the security of these hospitals, indicates AVN, although the deployment of militia will begin this Friday in Hospital El Algodonal, located in the West of Caracas.
The Minister made the comments after several members of the Government, including the Executive Vice President, ElÃas Jaua, met today with several unions of doctors because of high levels of insecurity that occur in hospitals in the country.
El Aissami urged doctors, managers and community to monitor this safety plan which will also include 450 military officers and other officials of law enforcement in the country.
“Have to send us comments;” “colleagues were trained to make Situational diagnosis, to know which are the hours that there are further influx of people, critical hours and different entries in the hospitals,” added.
He announced that the State is designing a special project in conjunction with the national police to be carried out at the beginning of the next year.
During the meeting, also intervened Chavez through a phone call, and said that his Government would provide “” its full support to the medical profession, “revolutionaries or not”.
“I care that they are serious to address this problem, and it must be in all areas of the country,” said Chavez, who showed his readiness to “turn the page” in the conflictive relationship that have kept these past few months the medical sector and the Government.
Jaua defended the intervention of the militia against “those who always go to oppose” and accuse this organization as repressive or “agents castro-comunistas”.
The recent murder at the end of August, a student of medicine out of the guard time in a hospital in the State of Carabobo raised debate about hospital insecurity to the media, which also led to that atizaran the protests of those who call for more security in medical centers.
Venezuela had a homicide rate in 2010 of 48 persons per 100,000 inhabitants, according to figures from the Government.
The Venezuelan Minister of the Interior and justice, Tareck El Aissami (c), said: “We have selected these ten hospitals because we believe that they have greater influx by users of the metropolitan area”. EFE/file
