The Minister of Health, Carolina Corcho, in an interview for EL TIEMPO, assured that the portfolio is finalizing the details of the articles of health reform that will be presented to Congress in 2023.
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Accordingly, the senior official asked for calm andclarified that the document must first go through Congresswhich is the public stage where their debate and concertation take place.
Along with this, regarding the rumors regarding the supposed filing date of the bill, Corcho stated that for now it has not been set. However, the official highlighted several of the pillars that the reform will have.
Key points of the health reform
1. Primary Health Care (PHC): This is the central axis within the health system. In this way, the preventive and predictive model launched by President Gustavo Petro in Aracataca, Magdalena, a few weeks ago, could be strengthened.
According to Corcho, the aim is to strengthen the components that currently show an imbalance in favor of disease care. Likewise, acting specifically on the social determinants of health, guaranteeing proximity of the population to care centers and converting the Primary Care Centers (CAP) into the gateway to the health system, which is mostly done by the emergency services.
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This pillar is articulated with comprehensive and integrated service networks that will include hospitals, clinics, laboratories and other public and private providers to guarantee timely care for the entire population.
2. The employment and dignity of health workers and workers: a response to the precariousness of Human Talent in Health (YHS).
This component is contained in the Statutory Health Law 1751, which functions as a guide and mandate to improve the quality of care for the entire population.
3. A transparent public information system: in search of knowing the flow of system resources and being able to make public policy decisions. The idea is to compensate one of the great problems of the system: the fragility of its information systems and their disarticulation.
This has been a barrier to support the genesis of programs, and the real qualification and quantification of health indicators and outcomes. Along with this, it seeks to know first-hand where they are and how all public resources for health are used.
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4. Overcoming the financial intermediation of the system: According to Corcho, the idea is that payment to both public and private service providers is timely.
Also that debts are minimized, accounts are clarified and access barriers, closure of services or attention blockages are avoided.
5. A science, technology and innovation policywhich includes a policy to strengthen the THS, as well as a pharmaceutical policy that favors the health autonomy of the country.
According to Minister Corcho, each of these points will be written in an article that, she insists, will be made known in a timely manner.
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With information from EL TIEMPO*
