Mass exodus of nurses fleeing Venezuela

[GatoGordo]

More than 2,000 nurses from Carabobo resigned their positions in the last year
Between five and eight professionals go weekly to the College of Nurses in Carabobo to process their documents and emigrate to other countries with better remuneration.

Ruth Lara Castillo Carabobo The Pit
February 9, 2018 10:48 pm

Translated from Spanish

Valencia.- Representatives of the College of Nurses of Carabobo said that more than 2,000 nursing professionals resigned their positions during the last year, some to emigrate and others to perform functions other than the profession that allow them better income.

The vice president of the institution, David Torrealba, said that the salaries do not adjust to the levels of inflation that are registered in the country and are insufficient to meet the needs such as food and transportation.

The spokesman said that, during the last two months, about 200 nurses gave up one of the most recognized private clinics of the entity, while, in the last half of 2017, about 500 nursing professionals withdrew from the City Hospitalaria Dr. Enrique Tejera of Valencia.

"In both the public and private sectors, we have a very poor salary that deteriorates more and more every day. The daily salary of a nurse in Venezuela is not enough to buy an egg, because the daily wage is Bs. 9,743.00. We are below the inflationary indexes, the nurses do not have the minimum resources necessary to have quality of life and that is leading us to the exodus," said Torrealba.

For her part, Carmen Álvarez, who is also part of the union's board, said that the region's nurses, who number close to 9,000, carry out various activities to increase income. "The staff has had to look for other work alternatives, physically running out in two or three jobs, which in most cases have nothing to do with the profession."

They demanded that the health authorities comply with the constitutional rights related to the right to work and the right to health.


https://elpitazo.com/centro/mas-de-2-000-enfermeros-de-carabobo-renunciaron-a-sus-cargos-en-el-ultimo-ano/

Maduro says, "Hardships are the price El Pueblo must pay for the Glorious Revolution!"

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. Deplorable conditions - someone, somewhere do something...this is beyond

imagination...you want to tell me, we need to put more sanctions on Meduro...WTF...and the people suffer..

If this isn't an attempt , dare I say it, at genocide - I don't know what is!!!! I sure hope the UN has a plan...

[DetlefK]

2. You cannot be serious.

What Venezuela needs is reforms. Political, economic, whatever. Any reforms will do. But Maduro refuses any changes. Because Chavez-socialism is the best form of government ever.

Maduro controls the Presidency, the Supreme Court, the military and he has created his own parliament to sideline the real parliament because the opposition controls that one.
There are stories about manipulated elections, stories about Chavistas giving government-aid only to people loyal to Maduro...

The people of Venezuela would no longer suffer if Maduro were willing to take even one step away from Chavez-socialism. But Nooooooooooooooooooooooo... Ideological purity is more important than people suffering.

[asiliveandbreathe]

3. Serious..this is a serious situation...Venezuela, needs reform??

NO SHIT.. Venezuela need Meduro GONE!...all of what you say has been written - I just don't see what your position is...WTH - please help me to understand..rather than "You cannot be serious?"...tks..

I always seek solutions...the Onion is peeled back on Venezuela -

Oscar Perez..

[DetlefK]

6. Venezuela is like Greece.

Lifting sanctions would help Venezuela economically, but it wouldn't help at all with the political situation or the inflation.



I know it's an unpopular stance, but the situation in Venezuela is basically the same as in Greece: Do you think that Greece would have enacted any meaningful reforms, would have fought tax-evasion in any meaningful way, would have cut government-waste in any meaningful way, would have fought corruption and bribery in any meaningful way, would have stopped falsifying financial documents and cooking the books, if the EU had just given them all the money they wanted?

Greece asked for a quick&dirty solution: "Give us the money and we promise that we'll eventually do reforms."

Maybe that would have saved Greece. Maybe not. German finance-minister Schäuble didn't take chances.

Instead of a quick&dirty solution of throwing money at the problem until it disappears, Schäuble set the stage for a slow, large, comprehensive process that takes all of Greece's problems (see above) into account.
While that process played out, Greece continued on its downward-spiral. And Schäuble was lambasted for not throwing other people's money at a country with THAT reputation.



With Venezuela it's similar. You cannot solve this problem from an economic angle. Venezuela needs multi-pronged reforms.

[GatoGordo]

4. I would agree that SOMEBODY needs to do something, but

Any external entity that intervenes would play right into Chavismo's hands. It is Maduro's wet dream that Trump send in the Marines... this would absolve him and his ilk of the disaster they have wrought upon Venezuela. He could blame them for ending their grand experiment prematurely... just as it was "about to turn things around".

Secondly, Chavez (now Maduro) has been saying for the last 19 years that there is an "imminent invasion" afoot. Naturally, this is the boy crying wolf... but the US has made a habit of involving itself in the past. Despite Trump, the US (Obama) has been making an effort to NOT be the worlds policeman. This goodwill would evaporate should the US try to militarily intervene. Besides, Maduro needs a distraction. Shooting a SAM up the tailpipe of a cargo plane dropping in supplies is what he wants. "THE YANQUIS ARE COMING!"

Last, there are a lot of zealots that insist that Chavismo is legit (it isn't) and the only problem with it is that the wrong people are administering it. Until the people that supported Chavismo start rising up in defiance, this cycle is going to repeat itself.

What needs to happen is this: Chavismo needs to be deprived of everything it values... hard currency. The targeted sanctions are working, as the rats are already leaving the sinking ship. Its debt cannot be refinanced, and it has nothing of value that it can trade (60%-70% of its oil goes to payment for services rendered to China and Russia) Chavismo couldn't get a loan from a payday lender. China says no more. Russia won't lend them a ruble. The currency is worthless. The infrastructure is rotting. Daily power outages. Fewer than ever pumps lifting sludge. Ships with oil being banned from ports due to contamination. Ships won't deliver anything (food, medicine) unless they are paid in cash (not useless Bolivars)

As far as the suffering, the only thing that can end that is Maduro. He won't allow humanitarian aid, because

A. There is no humanitarian crisis. In his view, this is all a CIA plot to make Chavismo look bad
B. If he allows aid, he admits that he has lost control of his country, hence he cannot remain in power
C. He cannot allow foreign entities to distribute aid, as this deprives the Chavistas who profit from the skim of their cut. WIthout their cut, the military (Cuban trained) will gladly sacrifice him.

Somebody needs to do something, but if that someone is foreign that does, it will either prolong this agony or make it worse. That is the very sad truth.

Maduro, Delcy, Diosdado, Vlad, Elias, Jorge and Aristobulo are ONLY concerned about the revolution. They couldn't give two worthless Bolivars for the people of Venezuela.

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. Thank you - I will continue to follow..hopefully those who have tried and gave their lives

will not be in vein..your knowledge and insight of this situation is appreciated, masterful prose - your concern is not falling on deaf ears..

I know I will never understand the lack of humanity some possess..