This Tuesday, the Minister of Health, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, made clear the intention that various points of the health reform, which is currently being processed in Congress, be applied in advance through decrees, specifically in La Guajira. This under the figure of the economic and social emergency that was decreed since July 2.
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It is not the It is the first time that this state of exception has been discussed to establish pilots for health reform in the northernmost department of the country. During the week of his government in La Guajira, Gustavo Petro himself spoke of this possibility in several of his speeches.
From Nazareth, last Tuesday, the president said: “The Health Reform is starting now and in the far north of La Guajira, it proposes the preventive and primary care system as the first pillar. We are not only going to strengthen the Nazareth hospital, but also medical teams that can move to care for the population in their homes.”
Days later, as part of that week of governing in the territories, the president reiterated his position. “There is a health reform that we will also do with emergency decrees. It is to configure the health districts throughout La Guajira and that the doctors go to each ranchería. it would include the direct transfer by the ADRES to the hospitals.
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Faced with this position, in In dialogue with El Tiempo, the Minister of the Interior, Luis Fernando Velasco, defended this point, pointing out that through the economic emergency “we can do some pilot exercises of what we want to do with the health reform: water, care for communities, health centers and ensure that people have the right to health”.
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The Minister of Health, Guillermo Jaramillo, spoke on Tuesday about the intention of using the emergency decree to promote the reform of health.
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Nestor Gomez. THE WEATHER
