Since before it was submitted to the Congress of the Republic by the now former Minister of Health, Caroline Corkthis initiative was strongly questioned, as doctors, experts in the field, associations and the users of the system themselves agreed that they had not been taken into account when creating the articles and the vast majority of the proposals were not clear used to be.
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Four months after being made available to the Congress this project for discussion, it has only progressed in the first debate in the Seventh Committee of the House of Representativesdespite the fact that it took a ministerial ‘shock’ that sidelined the originator of this initiative, the doctor and activist Corcho.
Throughout this period, the various health associations have repeatedly warned of the risks and negative impacts that there would be in the country if this article were approved, but little has been heard by the national government and the portfolio that is leading this bill today, headed by Minister Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo.
EL HERALDO spoke exclusively with the Executive President of the Colombian Association of Comprehensive Medicine Companies, AcemiPaula Acosta, who explained that the model of care proposed by the reform, fragmented for the user, without clear roles and responsibilities, with risks for the patient and for the protection of the system’s resources, requires a technical and in-depth discussion that addresses this initiative as a whole.
“The transition in a two-year period, where the Eps are abolished, and where the population has to enroll in a primary health care center, caps, so it’s very short times, if you look at what the processes are like in other sectors.” of the state, it is realized that there is no clarity in this process, neither in the construction of the Caps, nor how their implementation will be in terms of affiliation with users,” said the leader of Acemi.
Source: El Heraldo
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