EYE TREATMENT. If surgery or laser treatment is a medical Emergency, the first CAN $2,000 is covered at one hundred (100%) percent and the benefit shall be limited to fifty percent (50%) of the actual cost over that amount. Any cost related to glaucoma and/or cataract surgery is not covered.
EYE TREATMENT. Working together with Cuba (who provided the medical skills) Chavez has funded eye treatment for people across the Caribbean. The joint Cuban-Venezuelan plan, covering people from all Latin America and the Caribbean, offers to treat 600,000 people a year over the next 10 years. Oil Recently, 13 Caribbean governments signed the PetroCaribe accord, which supplies them with 185,700 barrels of Venezuelan oil daily and defers payments for 30 per cent of the imports for 15 years at an interest rate of 2 per cent a year, the rate decreasing in proportion to the increase in the oil price on the world market. Chavez has also offered the islands a $50m grant for social programmes. He is drawing up plans to provide cheap heating oil to poor communities in the U.S. after meeting with Rev. Jesse Jackson in Caracas in August 2005. High oil prices have left many poor US citizens with inadequate heating during cold winters. More than 180 thousand homes and shelters (760 thousand people), have received heating fuel with a 40 percent discount. More than 400 elderly homes and homeless shelters also benefited from this programme. In this case, they received heating fuel totally free of charge. So far eight states have benefited from this initiative: New York, Massachusetts, Delaware, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maine and Rhode Island. Media in Venezuela The media in Venezuela has freedom of expression Out of 180 newspapers 95% oppose the current administration There are 5 private TV stations all of which oppose President Chavez. There is one publicly owned TV station – Channel 8 – which has existed for 30 years.
