Health reform: Friday, February 10, the project will be filed

After the uncertainties and speculations around health, there would already be a date for the filing of the bill of health reform in Colombia.

(See: What the ex-ministers of Health ask about the reform project).

Through his Twitter account, the representative to the Chamber of the Historical Pact Alfredo Mondragón assured that the event will take place next Friday, February 10, 2023.

(See: The counterpoint grows in the country for the health reform).

“On February 10, the health reform will be filed at 8 am We call on the social movement to accompany President Gustavo Petro and Minister Carolina Corcho. It will be the reform of the social movement that all the people should knowthe official said.

The Minister of Health, Carolina Corcho, had stated, in a meeting with the National Federation of Departments, that the initiative would probably be presented this week, but that the articles were not yet ready.

And this Wednesday, as reported Snail Radio, the Vice Minister of Health, Luis Alberto Martínez, would have been in charge of indicating that it is “very likely“That the reform be filed this Friday.

(See: There is a shortage of medicines in Colombia: most affected diseases).

The announcement is made in the middle of a critical moment, when all eyes are on Minister Corcho and the initiative that leads her portfolio and that is pfundamental art of the promises made in the campaign by President Gustavo Petro.

It is worth remembering that 7 former Ministers and 11 former Vice Ministers of Health presented a right of petition to make the articles known. And a delegation of nine experts from the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization arrived in the country to support the Government in developing the reform.

(See: Health reform: new objections that the government project has).

PORTFOLIO AND TIME – HEALTH UNIT