health

mayo 7, 2026

How the Health System Collapse Is Experienced from the Leadership of a Guild

In the halls of the University Clinical Hospital, Judith León, president of the Federation of Bioanalysts' Colleges of Venezuela (Fecobiove), saw herself running with test tubes in hand, looking for private laboratories to process what the hospital – which feeds the statistics of at least 81% of inoperable public bioanalysis services – could not do.

How the Health System Collapse Is Experienced from the Leadership of a Guild

TL;DR

  • Judith León, president of Fecobiove, describes the difficulties faced in the University Clinical Hospital.
  • The public hospital system is largely inoperable, affecting bioanalysis services.
  • León had to seek private laboratories to process tests that the public hospital could not handle.