amazonas

📊 An operation that sets a precedent
Venezuelan banking continues to push financial inclusion into forgotten corners of the map, and this time it was the state of Amazonas that got its turn. Over a four-day period, the financial institution Bancamiga managed to add 518 people to the formal banking system, with a particular emphasis on the group of transport workers in Puerto Ayacucho. For PitbullChain, beyond the news itself, this represents an interesting sign of how financial digitalization is also advancing in border areas, where access to modern services is often more limited.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), onchocerciasis affects mainly rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa and Yemen, although smaller endemic foci have been found in some parts of Latin America.
The Venezuelan Ministry of Health reported that it deployed medical teams to 14 indigenous communities in the state of Amazonas, together with the Amazon Research Center (SA-CAICET), to eradicate onchocerciasis, a chronic parasitic infection caused by a worm and transmitted by the bite of blackflies.