The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, presented to the Federal Health Council (COFESA) the consensus reached to advance in the integration of the health system, it was reported this Thursday.
“In the framework of a new virtual meeting of the Federal Health Council (COFESA) headed by the Nation’s Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, the national portfolio shared with the highest health authorities of the 24 jurisdictions the balance of the first series of meetings of the Regional Health Councils (CORESA) that were carried out in April aimed at highlighting the challenges and proposals of the jurisdictions in terms of health management,” reported a statement from the Ministry of Health.
“In the regional meetings of Patagonia, NOA, NEA, Cuyo and Centro, the ministers recognized the leading role of the Ministry of Health of the Nation in the integration process and agreed that the provincial portfolios will be in charge of specifying the particularities of each jurisdiction”, he added.
“We are advancing in this federal work, in the COFESAs and the CORESAs, to have a position regarding the integration of the health system and how we are going to strengthen the public sector, but it is also very important to consider that each province will carry out the integration process of the health system in its jurisdiction“, Vizzotti indicated during the meeting.
The minister added: “a province that has an important private or social security subsector is not the same as a jurisdiction with a much larger exclusive public coverage component.”
Vizzotti also stood out so “Nation is going to accompany each situation in the same way as in each of the challenges we face: with a general framework and rules that we can take from the central level.”
With this objective, and facing the next COFESA in person andn the one that teams from Patagonia, Northwest Argentina (NOA), Northeast Argentina (NEA), Cuyo and Central will present their regional minutes of intent with the consensus reached during Aprilthe undersecretary of Federal Articulation, Verónica De Cristófaro, shared the balance with the common diagnoses elaborated from the CORESA, specified the official statement.
The official revealed thatand the heads of health portfolios throughout the country “agreed that the current fragmentation of the system, where subsystems coexist with multiple forms of financing and provision of services, has negative effects that can be viewed both in the inefficient use of resources, such as quality, equity and access to services by the population”.
“Given this panorama, the ministers ratified that the integration of the system constitutes a historical debt for the country”said De Cristofaro.
In that sense, he explained that the health authorities also agreed that “the COVID-19 pandemic not only raised awareness of the benefits of optimizing available resources for health management, but also demonstrated the ability to articulate with a federal perspective and achieve consensus with the different areas, subsectors, financiers and providers of the health system”.
Among the consensus reached, the official emphasized that the ministers of the five regions recognized the leading role of the National Ministry of Health in this process of integration of the health system.
It was agreed so provincial ministries, through its permanent and periodic interaction with the population, “They will be in charge of specifying the peculiarities, demands and existing needs in each jurisdiction.”
After thanking his peers for the articulated work to continue responding to the pandemic, Vizzotti celebrated the consensus reached and concluded that “we are making progress on very important basic things, pending debts, and greatly strengthening the federal perspective and the participation of the jurisdictions” .
