From San José del Guaviare (Guaviare), where the 21st edition of the Summit of the Colombian Association of Capital Cities (Asocapitales), President Gustavo Petro c.onfirmed that next Monday, February 13 The health reform bill will be filed in Congress.
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The president also made it clear that the project has as its central axis that the public hospital ceases to be a state social enterprise and it becomes a health institution.
“This is a mixed, complementary, non-competitive model. The public hospital ceases to be a State social enterprise, that is, to seek to minimize costs or cut service, and becomes a health institution, as it was before.Petro assured.
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He added that hospitals must guarantee the right to health and “patients come out – as far as technology and science give – cured”.
And he warned that in Colombia there is an unequal health system: “There is a deep differentiation of the population and in the regions regarding the right to health”.
(See: The counterpoint grows in the country for the health reform).
“We are looking for a primary care center that has a function that is not only to attend to the one who arrives, but also to organize a territory, in an average of 20,000 people, so that medical teams visit the family of that person permanently, routinely, and constantly. territory, wherever they are, to reduce the causes of the disease, eliminate it, if possible, or treat it even in a primary stage where it is still possible to save life“, held.
Gustavo Petro, during his speech at the Asocapitales summit, in San José del Guaviare,
Colombian Presidency
All eyes are on Minister Carolina Corcho and the initiative led by his portfolio and which is a fundamental part of the campaign promises made by President Gustavo Petro.
(See: Access to health services in Colombia would exceed 73%).
It is worth remembering that 7 former Ministers and 11 former Vice Ministers of Health presented a right of petition to make the article 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.
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