Julio Castro Méndez is a Venezuelan doctor who specializes in infectious diseases and internal medicine.
Career
editCastro has served as an infectious medicine doctor at the Metropolitan Polyclinic, director of the organization Doctors for Health, member of the Venezuelan Society of Infectious Diseases and professor at the Institute of Tropical Medicine at the Central University of Venezuela.[1][2][3][4][5]
Since 2019, Julio Castro is part of Plan País program under National Assembly President Juan Guaidó.[6]
On 15 March 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic of that year and after two cases were confirmed in Venezuela, Juan Guaidó announced the creation of a Commission of Health Experts to deal with the pandemic, a commission composed of Doctors and academic experts in different specialties, including Julio Castro, who heads the commission, Gustavo Villasmil, from the Venezuelan Society of Internal Medicine, and Edgar Capriles, specialist in Health Economics, among others.[5][7]
References
edit- ^ Sleinan, Julett Pineda (28 July 2018). "En seis meses han fallecido dos personas con hepatitis A en Caracas". Efecto Cocuyo. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ "Alegan que apagones y falta de agua agrava situación de hospitales en Venezuela". El Universal. AFP. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ Lozano, Daniel. "Otra dramática cara de la crisis venezolana: las epidemias se expanden". La Nación. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ "Julio Castro Méndez, médico en Venezuela: "La mortalidad infantil ha aumentado en los últimos cinco años un 120% en Venezuela"". Onda Cero. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Juan Guaidó anunció la creación de una Comisión de Expertos de la Salud del Gobierno Legítimo para hacer frente al coronavirus en Venezuela". Infobae. 15 March 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ "Julio Castro desde el Plan País: Venezuela desfigura el combate a la malaria en el continente". El Nacional. 5 December 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ "Este es el orden del día de este martes". EVTV Miami. 17 March 2020.
External links
edit- The Great Zika Cover-Up, Matthew Stein. Ozy.
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