The Cabinet Council authorized this Wednesday the Minister of Social Development, María Inés Castillo, to present to the National Assembly the bill on the Beehive Plan, with which it seeks to adopt the national strategy to address the conditions of multidimensional poverty and of social vulnerability of the neediest communities in Panama.
The project includes the territories subject to Colmena intervention, the lines of action, the strategic framework, governance networks, financing, compliance, follow-up and monitoring.
Minister Castillo assured that they are seeking to have a regulatory framework to close the inequality gaps in the 300 most vulnerable districts of Panama.
He indicated that the Hive Plan includes existing or future programs and projects, together with multisectoral offers from the Central Government and local governments, elevating the Executive Decree of the Hive Plan to the law of the Republic.
Courtesy to former Minister Rosario Turner
On the other hand, and at the request of President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, the Cabinet Council gave courtesy to former Minister of Health Rosario Turner to present the situation of the pandemic in Panama two years after the first case was confirmed. of covid-19.
“Dr. Turner’s work was important in difficult times; She was accompanied by Dr. Luis Francisco Sucre as her deputy minister, a loyal man as well. I asked Dr. Turner to talk to us about that moment when she informed me of the situation that was happening in China in January 2020, that experience of receiving the report from the health experts who said that in five to two weeks we would have 122 thousand positive cases,” said the president.
