The representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Cristian Morales, announced the development of 32 projects in the health sector with the purpose of strengthening the health system in Venezuela.

Morales said: “We are discussing with the Ministry of Health where the priorities are to be able to intervene in the areas of comprehensive community health; as well as raising management capacities, delivering medicines and supplies, recovering the infrastructure.”

The projects will be offering support in various areas such as: medicines, strengthening the capacities of health centers, such as the Comprehensive Diagnostic Centers (CDI), among others.

Reactivate the pharmaceutical industry

The representative of the WHO and PAHO highlighted the importance of reactivating the country’s pharmaceutical industry to be able to produce the medicines that the population requires and that allow them to improve their health conditions. In his opinion, the country has a fairly strong pharmaceutical industry compared to other countries.

“Not only raise production, not only raise the laboratories where the medicines and vaccines that Venezuela can develop are produced; but also to raise the capacities of the Ministry of Health, of the Institute of Hygiene to be able to ensure that this production is of quality”, he explained.

On the other hand, Morales also referred to the need to optimize the living conditions of workers, who, in his opinion, are working in “very complex conditions” that have worsened as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Morales also confirmed that the WHO, like PAHO, has always supported the country in the “definition, implementation, and supervision of public health policies.”

M. Rodríguez

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Venezuela has great possibilities to increase its exports for this 2022, due to the “conditions in the international markets”. This was stated by the president of the Venezuelan Association of Exporters (AVEX), Ramón Goyo, who considers that there is “room to grow”, but it is necessary to improve “public policies that help produce more.”

According to Goyo, the country has a large installed capacity that is not fully operational at the moment, but it is an important competitive advantage. “The fact of having an installed capacity in the domestic sector means that we can increase exports with products with added value, with greater knowledge that implies better prices in international markets.”

According to Fedeagro and Conindustria reports, approximately 23 % of the installed capacity is not being used. “At this stage, this increase is positive, but it has little effect on consumption, so the alternative left to companies is to export to increase production and installed capacity,” he added.

Venezuela will reorient its exports

The president of AVEX considers that the pandemic generated a disruption of international value chains in Venezuela, resulting in two aspects of great importance. The first is related to the “security of supplies from international markets, which are experiencing a “trend to localize production”.

The second aspect is linked to an “internal increase in the trade regions“, warning in Latin America “an interregional increase in trade and these variables can be very favorable in Venezuela if they are used correctly.”

It is for these reasons that Goyo considers that the country could redirect its exports to the Latin American market, that is, to countries such as Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, in which there is a greater demand for products.

Global export rebound

The AVEX representative highlighted that currently all developing countries are experiencing a very interesting international situation, due to the global repercussion due to the “policies of fiscal and monetary spaces” that stimulated domestic consumption and world trade causing its increase in world exports. “There has been extremely large growth in world trade,” he stated.

By 2021, world trade growth was recorded at 10 %, positively impacting the increase in global gross domestic product (GDP) in the order of 5 %.

For its part, Venezuela, in particular, registered a 30 % rebound in its non-oil exports by 2021, which is equivalent to “1.8 billion dollars against 1.45 billion dollars in a pandemic,” he highlighted.

M. Rodríguez

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The Ministry of Transport of Colombia has announced the possibility of implementing the use of new technologies to collect, store, process and distribute information in order to seek an improvement in transport operations, management and safety, in its announcement it also reported the possibility of including blockchain technology in the proposal.

The measure announced by the representative of the ministerial portfolio, Ángela María Orozco, in the newspaper El Tiempo, represents a joint effort that the government has been developing to establish a new comprehensive policy for the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and thereby face the challenges of mobility in the country.

Orozco stressed that the proposal “will have implications for the quality of life, economic development and competitiveness of the different regions, influencing environmental sustainability and social cohesion, essential for democratic prosperity and the development of the regions.”

He also indicated that the institution works “on the application of blockchain technology for the management of transactions and database interaction of institutions in the sector, which allows data analysis and its use in public policy.”

The objective is to seek “to consolidate the implementation of robotics for the public transport administration, as well as the use of servomechanism, such as the internet of things, to promote greater security and legality in the sector,” said the minister.

K.Villarroel

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