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Despite the regular results achieved so far by the EPS Savia Salud intervention ordered by the government of Gustavo Pietro, the Health Supervisory Authority has extended the measure for another year.
The decision was formally made through Resolution No. 2024320000005831-6 dated June 15, 2024 and expands the coercive administrative intervention issued by the government just one year ago to include mixed EPS serving 1.6 million members.
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According to the information received from EPS to intervene for this extension Edwin Carlos Rodriguez Villamizar was also certified as the intervening special agent To continue carrying out the tasks corresponding to this measure.
“In accordance with what was stated in the extension decision, The action plan will be modified to comply with the intervention action orders As actions for the technical and financial recovery of EPS continue with the aim of ensuring comprehensive attention to our users,” noted the current management of EPS.
Ironically, they told the members that too It will ensure the right to health while providing opportunities, continuity, relevance and security Services that must be guaranteed through insurance.
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The fact is that this last consideration has been called into question People have seen care at Savea deteriorate much further since the national government intervened. Recent months have witnessed long queues and chaos outside some locations, especially medicine dispensers, due to the failure to deliver the required treatments to patients suffering from various diseases, some of which are very expensive and dangerous, which further exacerbates the problem and the danger they live in.
But the panorama is also supported by numbers and indicators. Savia Salud still suffers from a deep hole in her accounts: while… At the end of 2023, the entity’s liabilities were already approaching $1 trillion, a potential capitalization, which for several years was the most realistic short-term solution to bring the entity back from the ghost. Liquidation is still in a state of suspense.
According to Savia Salud’s financial statements submitted to the Nation’s General Accounting Office, liabilities have increased. While in 2020 this indicator amounted to $656.724 million, in December 2023 it reached $969.763 million.
This last indicator, which also has a deadline of December 2023, was still larger than the EPS assets themselves, which were then calculated at $789.734 million (i.e. $183.028 million above).
The company also recorded an increase in its operating and administrative expenses, which rose from $80,976 million in 2021, to $85,005 million in 2022, and $95,731 million in 2023.
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The EPS management has maintained its position that in recent months it has published a plan for the entity to fulfill its obligations to the hospital network and ensure operation, but critical voices in the Antioquia Association and patients continue to question the administrative management of the organization.
Currently, individuals and families of patients are still waiting for improved care and a real guarantee of their right to health.
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