At the launch of Preventive and Predictive Health Program led by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, President Gustavo Petro made important announcements around primary care centers and care teams.
(Government keeps Drogas La Rebaja and will distribute medicines).
“We will reach up to 20,000 medical equipment, which is worth $5 billion pesos”said the president, adding that “We must build 10 Primary Care Centers throughout Colombia.”
The first, he explained, “The mafia handed them over when the justice system expropriated them, that is, they extinguished the domain of a series of companies that they had to launder dollars.”
All pharmacy dispensaries Drugs downgrade, which are in all municipalities “and without deteriorating the conditions of the people who work there today, they go to the Ministry of Health to serve in this program, that is, they become Primary Care Centers, a reference point for medical teams.”
In addition, these places will have medical attention, sale of medicines as it is up to now, “and the two laboratories for the production of generic medicines become the property of the Ministry of Health to develop there the Colombian production of vaccines and generics that allow us to lower the cost of medicine in Colombia”assured in an intervention that was accompanied by a torrential downpour.
“$5 billion is worth, it is one of the most valuable programs from the point of view of the budget item, which if the Tax Reform is approved, will begin to govern from next year and more and more, but it has a counterpart and that is that Hundreds of lives, thousands of lives of women, children, girls, of people, could be rescued, perhaps saved, precisely because this health system prevents the disease before it occurs, can correct it or attend to it early.
(Drugs La Rebaja, to extinction of domain and passes into the hands of the State).
“This is what I call a Colombia world power of life. The health system has to generate life in Colombia and not death, and for it to generate life it has to be a right, if it generates death it has to be a business. Therefore, here we are going to correct and start what we have called health in Colombia, a health that generates life in a Colombia that is a world power of life”President Petro closed before about 6 thousand people who attended the school facilities and the street despite the weather conditions presented and waited until the end.
About the operation of the points of Drugs downgradethe National Government is reviewing the legal status of the company so that it is included in the health system as Primary Care Centers.
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