Friday, February 22, 2008
Chavez will use a portion of the $900 million obtained from selling an oil storage terminal for health spending
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will use a portion of the $900 million obtained from selling an oil storage terminal in the Bahamas for health spending. 'We sold these (oil) storage installations in the Bahamas. From those proceeds we will also take 100 billion bolivars ($46.5 million) to fund this project,' Chavez said in televised remarks referring to the Borco Oil Refining Co., an oil terminal in Freeport, Bahamas, recently sold to private equity firm First Reserve Corp.
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The problem is the usual one: in spite of all the brave talk and the ambitious plans unveiled, the health sector is still being run from the top-down; and up and down this vertical system, "gatekeepers" are either not doing their job, or are actually and actively sabotaging initiatives. And they can get away with this because there is no one there to check on them constantly, daily, and to maintain an eye on the steady development of the government's plans, open and transparent for all to see.
ReplyDeleteSo instead: the entire sector must be organized on a consejo basis: each hospital, clinic, etc. must be organized so that the health workers themselves -- doctors, nurses and all the staff -- not only have their constant say on what is happening in the area of their collective responsibility thruout the country, but can also combine on a democratic basis of all the consejos together, at the appropriate level by barrio, city, region, state and nationally, to see to it that the overall development plans of the health sector are met promptly, on time, on budget -- and perhaps even exceeded occasionaly. Or often.
And that is how you build socialism -- ministry by ministry.
Out with the deadwood. In with the new blood. Type A+.