National Hospital Survey
The National Hospital Survey is carried out by the venezuelan civil society organzation Doctors for Health. The organization started in 2014 as an information network of health workers all across the country. The network was conceived in response to the increasing amount of wounded citizens arriving to hospitals during a wave of civil protests. As the civil unrest receded, the network continued as a digital platform for the purpose of sharing information about the state of the health system and published its first results by the end of 2014. Since then, the National Hospital Survey has been published 5 more times, reporting on the operability of medical equipment in 40 of the biggest public hospitals in the country. The initiative is recognized and supported by the Venezuelan National Assembly and diverse Medical Associations. Given that the National Health Ministry has not published any offical data in the last 3 years, the Hospital Survey has become the go-to source of information about the crisis of the health system in Venezuela for organizations abroad and for citizens in the country.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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