The Military Community Brigades (Bricomiles) of Venezuela, a government plan launched last month to restore centers Sanitary, they have 255,547 volunteers in the health area, informed this Tuesday the minister of that portfolio, Magaly Gutiérrez.
“It would be necessary to check in the whole world if there is a movement and an organizational force in the territory on a voluntary basis to do a job, it would have to be checked, because I think we are pioneers,” said the official during a meeting with Nicolás Maduro, broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).
These brigades began to form on June 25, with the aim that their members restore public health centers.
Gutiérrez indicated that in the health sector there are 11,005 groups, which “means 82%” of the target set, which is 13,412 health brigades.
The minister, who said that the goal is to create a brigade for each popular clinic, highlighted the participation, not only of personnel from health centers, the military, and political spokespersons from the communities, but also of plumbers, masons, electricians, and workers from other trades that have joined volunteering.
school repair
Maduro It also launched, within the same plan, the groups for the repair of schools, which, to date, have 23,832 brigades, according to the Minister of Education, Yelitze Santaella, who did not specify how many volunteers make them up. However, she pointed out that they are 90% of the target set.
Given the progress, Maduro highlighted voluntary work. He assured that “the Bricomiles are the great and new response to put education and public health on the top.”
According to Maduro, the communal councils, the Somos Venezuela Movement, student organizations and the Armed Forces will work on these reparations that they intend to extend to the entire territory.
The goal is: 100% operational and functional health facilities, with doctors, nurses, nurses and medicines. We always seek solutions with the awareness and spirit of service of health personnel. Let’s go then, to meet the goals! pic.twitter.com/L9Avs7qxfa
– Nicolas Maduro (@NicolasMaduro) July 13, 2022