This Friday, September 12, the President Gustavo Petro He starred in a new speech, in which he openly denounced ex -women from the Board of Directors of Nueva EPS to deliver makeup figures from this health entity.
The context of your speech has to do with the report delivered by the Comptroller General of the Nationin which warnings are made for irregularities in advance management, the billing of health services, the hiring of providers and the constitution of technical reserves, adding billionaires amounts.
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And, according to the entity’s document, The value of pending advances to legalize went from $ 3.4 billion to $ 8.6 billion between 2023 and 2024that is to say, an increase of 155%.
New EPS
‘Fraud’
Gustavo Petro began showing these figures, as a proof to demonstrate that the financial situation of the new EPS is, according to him, a “huge robbery of health in Colombia”, mentioning that the entity, since its inception, has had “A ROBO HISTORY“
“Almost since his first affiliation, he has had a robbery story. Small while growing, until it became the largest EPS in Colombia. What the comptroller shows us is that in recent years (…) there has been a mechanism that has allowed the money that is from the state for the health of affiliates, towards contractors, they are always the same (…), towards the owners of the health of Colombia and some powerful politicians who stay with the coimas“, said.
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In presidential speech, the president @Petrogustavoshared that the recent report from the Comptroller to the New EPS ratifies the complaints that the National Government had already made.
“What the comptroller shows us is that in recent years there has been a … pic.twitter.com/kxs9ttdrkz
– Colombia Presidency 🇨🇴 (@infoPresidencia) SEPTEMBER 13, 2025
Petro pointed to the Board of Directors and the previous presidency of the health provider entity to deliver makeup data, pointing out that the EPS had liabilities for 6.6 billion pesos, when the national government had found that these were for more than $ 11 billion
“If they did not pay $ 5 billion, did they not have the money or were they spent on something else? Here is the point of the investigation. ”The president pointed to the compensation boxes, owners of the EPS“He said.
The president also mentioned that all EPS in the country should be under state control: “Their funds come from all salaried workers in the country. That is, they are not private (…) those are the owners of the EPS“
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President Gustavo Petro
According to the first president, “Two million invoices were hidden to cover the failure of the new EPS. They spoiled the State and affected Colombians. It was not a mistake, it was a fraud against the health of the people, today it is uncovered and faced“
“What the comptroller shows us is that in recent years there has been a mechanism that has allowed the money that is from the State, for the health of the affiliates, towards contractors, which are always the same, towards the owners of the health of Colombia and some powerful politicians who stay with the coimas“He added.
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