Venezuela-Colombia

Ongoing Mission

Country Facts

Since 2015, nearly 3 million individuals have emigrated from Venezuela largely due to a humanitarian crisis
Limited vaccination in Venezuela resulted in a resurgence of previously eradicated infectious diseases such as polio, diphtheria, and measles
Due to physicians and medicine shortage, maternal and child mortality rate has risen and diseases such as HIV are uncontrolled

Report on HIV Crisis

MedGlobal's Response

Volunteer

MedGlobal delivers primary care services to the Venezuelan population in Cucuta, Colombia. We are looking for primary care physicians in the following specialties:

Specialties Needed: Family Practice, Pediatrics, Internists, GP, Emergency Medicine, and Gynecologists

Time Commitment: 1 week minimum (Sunday – Sunday)

Dates: Ongoing weekly

VENEZUELAN ECONOMIC REFUGEES

The migrant crisis in Venezuela is the second largest worldwide after Syria. The challenge of this mass exodus is the healthcare condition of Venezuelan refugees. Venezuelan refugees require immediate healthcare services when arriving to receiving countries, both collapsing local healthcare systems and representing a public health threat if left untreated.

Unfortunately, the increase in migrants to Colombia has also resulted in an increase in rates of malnourishment among Venezuelans. Venezuelans are limited in jobs, housing, and resources to address their basic needs both in their home country and in the receiving countries to which they are migrating to.

MISSION BRIEF

In 2018 alone, there were more than 870,000 Venezuelan migrants in Colombia alone, with only 442,462 of these migrants capable of acquiring Permits of Permanence (PEP). PEP allows Venezuelans living in Colombia to access healthcare locally. This means that over half of the estimated displaced Venezuelans living in Colombia do not have access to healthcare, despite great government efforts.

With 27% of Venezuelan migrants being children, and many more being women of childbearing age, there is a dire need for primary care, pediatric care, and obstetric care. With increasing HIV rates, malaria outbreaks, and rising rates of malnourishment, and limited healthcare resources present, the situation for Venezuelan’s living in Colombia is dire.

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This Christmas, make a gift of health care to Venezuelan refugees

The Venezuelan refugee exodus is the worst humanitarian crisis in the southern hemisphere, second only to the Syrian catastrophe. Fifteen percent of the population –

December 25, 2019

MedGlobal establishes a clinic in Columbia to serve Venezuelan migrants

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MedGlobal Volunteer Opportunities: Clinic serving Venezuelan refugees in Colombia in need of volunteers for 2020

Marked by political repression, hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages, the crisis in Venezuela continues, unabated after five years of conflict. Once the richest country in

December 18, 2019

People awaiting services at the border zone just inside Colombia.

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Reflections on the Venezuelan migrant crisis and my work with MedGlobal

By Allison Walton, MD. All photos taken by Dr. Walton. The Venezuelan migrant crisis is ultimately a tale of corruption, greed, and shortsightedness, but also

October 31, 2019

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