After what happened in Congress due to the declarations of heto miniHealth Strategies, Carolina Corcho, On the sector’s budget for 2023, the official, at a press conference, pointed out that: “It is not true that the budget for health has been reduced. Is a lie”.
(Concerns of the health sector about the Budget).
Minister Corcho clarified that “there is a fiscal deficit and the budget has not been approved,” and added that the presentation she made in Congress, which triggered a stir in public opinion, was agreed with the Ministry of Finance.
And he explained that the previous administration left a deficit of $5.5 billion and therefore adjustments need to be made.
(EPS Guild requests to review health sector reform decisions).
In his speech, he stated that “experts” and members of other political parties have shown figures that do not correspond to reality. “They accuse with misinformation that there is a lack of financing of health,” said Corcho.
“They have said that we are going to induce a health crisis. Health is already in crisis”For example, said the official, 30,000 pregnant women today do not have proper health care.
In addition, Corcho announced that the Duque government’s health superintendent left in the process of intervention 11 EPS, Therefore, according to what he said, it is not the Petro government that seeks to end these entities.
(Acetaminophen, tramadol and other medications that are missing).
In this regard, the current Superintendent of Health, Ulahy Beltrán, added that: “Obviously, they are interventions to liquidate (…) I did not get to liquidate the EPS. They are liquidating themselves”. And he said that these entities have defaulted on payments, and the debts of those entities that are under special surveillance exceed $4 billion.
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