Resolution No. 16, 20 November 1987

This Venezuela Resolution requires the performance of a cytological study in all medical offices providing family planning, pre- and postnatal care, adult hygiene, treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, and gynecological services and, in general, all medical offices in the public sector that treat women between the ages of 25 and 64. It also requires all patients treated in these offices who for any reason have to be admitted for hospitalization to undergo a cytological exam. The purpose of these activities is the prevention of uterine cancer.