President Gustavo Petro asked the Superintendency of Health and the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the EPS for “Don’t buy drugs just to push a political outcome.”
(Who depends on the shortage of medicines in Colombia?).
The president’s comment comes in the middle of the debate, which has been going on for more than a month, due to a shortage of medicines.
Invima had reported the lack of 50 medicines in March of this year and Acemi, an EPS union, warned about the absence of 1,200 active ingredients. This situation led Francisco Rossi, who was the director of Invima, to mention that the EPS and IPS were the ones that were restricting the services to pressure changes in the health reform.
(There is a shortage of medicines in Colombia: most affected diseases).
This comment was taken up by President Gustavo Petro, prior to the vote on the health reform project in Congress, an initiative that has been strongly criticized by the unions that group the country’s EPS, especially because some of its functions are limited including insurance.
Faced with the request of the head of state to the Supersalud and the Prosecutor’s Office, The spokespersons for the entities of the subsidized and contributory schemes had not commented at press time.
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