The anti-health fix is ​​up to the pulse with a petro fix

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Corps of Venezuelan doctors trained by the Nicolás Maduro regime, with technical support from Cuba, may arrive in Colombia. That was the new alarm that came in the midst of legislative pushes for health reform, and it’s a debate that intensified this week when liberal party se is ready to submit a new proposal for this article, on 20 July.

The warning was issued by the Colombian Medical College and fell on the same weekend as the former Red Chief, César Gaviria, showed 64 pages of A legislative bill that promises to balance the text of Gustavo Petro’s government Who is on the verge of his second debate in the House of Representatives.

The Liberals initiative maintains the entities of Health Service Providers (EPS), the vertical integration of the system and the participation of individuals in it. Specifically, the points that the traditional parties have been making to the government since February – when Petro and former health minister, Carolina Corcho, submitted the articles – and which have been at the center of a row with the executive delegates as Nariño’s first council can’t hear you.

To deaf ears, A.J Counter-Reform is the second party with the most seats in Congress (46 seats) that will be presented on July 20th itself at the New Year’s Inauguration of the sessions in which Petro will, for the first time, deliver his address as President before a full Congress that appeared to be an overwhelmingly pro-caucus government.

the Liberal Counter-Reformation It collects from its first point the solution to the objections referred to by the opposition and independent parties. It is a legal bill, which means that it must be dealt with by the First Committee as it understands that a human right is being amended, and part of the basis of “building on what is built”.

These are words German Escobar, Deputy Minister of Health in the Ivan Duque administration and one of the authors of liberal essays. The provision maintains competition between private EPS, but allows the state to concentrate these services in rural areas where there is not good coverage from individuals.

The former deputy minister described it as “a project that quickly addresses problems, Do not re-establish the system and take advantage of the best proposals that have emerged in these months of discussion (including the government).

What’s left of Petrista’s proposal?: Primary health care (APS) and primary health care (CAPS), two items found in the government’s primary articles and part of the prevention motto.

repair attempt

Liberal charter for health reform It’s already on the table, but it requires support. From the Partido de la U they tell this newspaper that Delian Francisca Toro, president of the group, has always highlighted the red lines of former President Gaviria.

The point is, the decision to support or not support articles will take at least until July 25th when there is a meeting scheduled on the “independent” bench. On the part of the Conservative Party, another party that has declared its independence since May, this analysis will take a long time.

But the ball is on the executive side of the court because, as one representative who promoted the current articles put it: “We will wait and see what else happens with the government.”a direct nod to the Minister of the Interior, Luis Fernando Velasco, calling for the rescue of unity of seat.

But it cannot be ignored that the premonitions of the nationalization of health proposed by government reform were such that another article had already begun to make his career in Congress: the article “Radical Change” presented by the former vice president himself, German Vargas Lleras, and his seat. with Three health reform bills Going forward, congressional regulations may require all proposals to be rolled into one, directly threatening the bill Petro introduced in February.

Alert by Venezuelan doctors

While the controversy over the reforms is being resolved, a source came directly from Chavismo to the catalog of alarm signals of the changes in the health system to be implemented. he Colombian Medical College He warned about the dangers of the possible arrival of the Venezuelan Comprehensive Community (MIC) physicians to Colombia.

It is a form of Venezuelan doctors whose training was paid by Cuba by Hugo Chávez to respond to the low health coverage in Venezuela and maintained by the Nicolás Maduro regime as a response to the crisis in the Venezuelan health system.

The problem is that graduates of this program taught directly by the system only study for three years, not six as in Colombia, and their curriculum is not comparable to the national curriculum, so their training is – in fact – for health promoters, not doctors.

The health reform rapporteur and representative of the charter, Alfredo Mondragon, told this newspaper that “if any parliamentarian had this initiative, he would have to take it to the plenary session of Congress.” The move has already been made: Historic Pact Senator Robert Daza convened a technical table in the legislature to review how this model could be replicated in Colombia. But his idea is not supported by the medical community.