Venezuela’s collapsed healthcare system requires massive investment potentially fundable through revenues from Venezuela supplying oil to the US indefinitely. However, mechanisms ensuring petroleum proceeds rebuild health infrastructure remain unclear.
Hospital facilities lack basic supplies, equipment, and functional infrastructure after years of underfunding. Rebuilding healthcare capacity requires billions potentially available from Venezuela supplying oil to the US indefinitely if revenue distribution prioritizes health investments.
Medical professional emigration decimated Venezuela’s healthcare workforce with an estimated 30,000 doctors fleeing. Repatriating or replacing these professionals requires addressing compensation and working conditions beyond what petroleum revenues alone solve even with Venezuela supplying oil to the US indefinitely.
Pharmaceutical supply chains that once served Venezuelan healthcare have collapsed requiring reconstruction. Petroleum revenues from Venezuela supplying oil to the US indefinitely could fund medicine imports short-term while supporting domestic production capacity long-term.
Public health crisis including resurgent infectious diseases demands systematic responses. Whether arrangements for Venezuela supplying oil to the US indefinitely include provisions ensuring health investments determines population welfare outcomes beyond petroleum sector benefits.