August 24, 2016

Carlos Atencio

Providing better and more accessible healthcare for all people in Venezuela.
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Carlos Atencio – founder of Fundación Medicina Familiar – is responding to the failing healthcare system in Venezuela by introducing a new model of care, based on family practice medicine, and centered on community responsibility and participation.

Carlos was elected Ashoka Fellow in 1996 as part of the program cohort led by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Hystra and Ashoka to support social entrepreneurship in Latin America.

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