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Bishops urge to equip hospitals and address problems that afflict Zulianos and Merideños


Archbishop of Maracaibo and 3 bishops issued a statement. They lament deaths of doctors. They remember that the high cost of food, electric rationing, lack of water and domestic gas, queues to buy fuel, the collapse of hospitals and insecurity do not allow living with quality of life.

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Given the advance of the pandemic – of the covid-19 coronavirus – in the various municipalities of Zulia, as well as some localities of the state of Merida in the South of the Lake, mainly in the Alberto Adriani municipality, the four pastors of the Ecclesiastical Province of Maracaibo urge regional and municipal authorities to further intensify preventive actions and provision of supplies to health centers that care for sick people with covid-19.

On the morning of this Tuesday the 30th, the Archbishop of Maracaibo, José Luis Azuaje Ayala, Monsignor Ángel Francisco Caraballo Fermín, Bishop of Cabimas, and the bishops of Machiques and the Diocese of El Vigía-San Carlos, Nicolás Nava Rojas and Juan de Dios Peña Rojas, respectively, issued a statement to the people of God on the occasion of this pandemic.

In the document, they deeply regret the death of several doctors who have given their lives in the line of duty to those infected by the virus.

They urge the competent health authorities, “to provide doctors and health operators with all the instruments, equipment and clothing so that they can safely carry out their profession, the purpose of which is to save lives (…)”.

The shepherds ask the authorities to “not forget that their service is in the region and in the municipality; it is no longer about things or politics, but about the health and life of human beings created in the image and likeness of God; We remind you that in the face of the pandemic, leaders are also vulnerable. “

They also point out that “it is not just a matter of professionally and seriously monitoring the progress of the covid-19 in our region, but also of facing firmly and without any partisan interest, the multiple problems that have afflicted us and not have allowed us to live in peace, or with quality of life: the high cost of food, electric rationing, lack of water and domestic gas, long lines to buy fuel, the collapse of hospitals, insecurity, among other things, they have put at risk the physical and spiritual health of the population, and the Zulianos and Merideños of the South of the Lake do not deserve this!

This is the statement

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