A group of former ministers and former deputy health ministers where they present the national government with 15 questions about the scope of the health reform they are building.
In the letter, they reiterated their commitment to a technical, broad and participatory debate, fostering a solid consensus on what is desirable and what is possible, based on the constitutional mandate, statutory health law and key achievements. in the country since the 1993 reform.
“It is clear that there are problems to be solved and situations to be improved, especially with regard to the fragmentation of care, the possibility in some specialized services, the difficulties in accessing very rural areas, the arrangements for hiring of staff and, in general, the financial sustainability of the system,” the ex-ministers pointed out in the document.
The petition addresses 15 general questions covering 5 basic aspects: participation in the process of considering, deliberating and approving the reform (four questions); compliance with the constitutional minima of public policy that frame the proposed structural reform (three questions); reasonableness, proportionality and progressiveness of the proposed measures (three questions); the transitional regime (three questions) and the sustainability of the reform (two questions). Protection of the effective enjoyment of the political rights of participation in the process of structural legal reform of the system on which the effective enjoyment of the right to health depends.
Source: El Heraldo
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