On Tuesday, several groups of health workers in Venezuela protested at the gates of 15 hospitals in Caracas and others in the interior of the country to demand full payment of their salaries. “We want to pay now!” the protesters shouted. and “Mr. Minister, no more sarcasm!” Some roads near the hospitals were closed for several minutes, as shown in the photos published by the unions. By Ursula Curtis. Full Text -> BOBFM

42% of Venezuelan doctors received at least one dose of the vaccine against covid-19, according to a survey published this Monday by the NGO Doctors United of Venezuela, which took a sample of 2,970 doctors in the country, including retirees and the disabled, to make the estimate. Full Text -> MarketResearchTelecast

“The Government has not vaccinated 90% of front-line health personnel against COVID-19,” according to the Venezuelan Medical Federation (FMV). I deny what was said by the Minister of Health, Carlos Alvarado. “It is a vile and shameless lie. We must make a call to this man so that he does not continue lying like President Nicolás Maduro who announced that 1.3 million vaccines have arrived in the country,” said the president of the FMV, Douglas León Natera, through a statement. By OnVenezuela

 The focus of the health care crisis in Venezuela has often been placed on the country’s infrastructure and not on the workers, who for years have been continuing to leave the sector. Now, the conditions in which they work amid the Covid-19 pandemic – according to their own figures – have taken the lives of 549 of them and they are sounding a dire warning: Venezuela may soon find itself without health care workers. By Gonzalo Dominguez Loeda. Full Text -> LaPrensaLatinaMedia

 Nurses mounted protests Wednesday in various parts of Venezuela to press the government to adopt a national Covid-19 vaccination plan and provide hospitals with more in the way of supplies, including personal protective equipment (PPE) for staff. Here in the capital, dozens of nurses gathered outside the Health Ministry to present Minister Carlos Alvarado with a document listing their demands, including higher salaries for medical personnel. Full Text-> LaPrensaLatina

For Venezuelan hospital security guard Yurymay Diaz to buy a full cart of groceries and put aside enough money to buy new shoes for her daughter, it took two special bonus payments worth nearly 20 times her monthly salary. The two $100 deposits to the 48-year-old mother of two in September and October did not come from the Caracas hospital where she works, but rather from funds seized by the United States from the government of President Nicolas Maduro. By Brian Ellsworth, Vivian Sequera. Full Text -> Reuters

According to the report of the organization Doctors United for Venezuela, to date 106 health workers have died in the country, a 25% fatality, due to suspicion of COVID-19. Full Text-> Explica

Dozens have been infected. More than 60 have died. Here, doctors and nurses are so ill-protected that they account for a third of all officially reported deaths from coronavirus. By Mabel Sarmiento. Full Text-> Caracas Chronicles

Guaidó made the announcement this Thursday night, April 16th, through a video broadcast on its social networks, where he also indicated that such economic support could be enjoyed by the beneficiaries in “a direct manner, without going through the dictatorship, and accessing through a virtual purse that we will develop with the Organization of American States.” Full text -> Asamblea Nacional/Centro de Comunicaciones