31/03/2023
Respirator for health reform. It was around 5:20 in the afternoon when the project coordinator, representative Alfredo Mondragón (Historical Pact), posed for a photo with the document of the filing of the positive report of this article presented by the national government.
Given this, the representative Agmeth Escaf, president of the Seventh Commission of the House -where it is discussed- said that he received “the filing of the presentation of the Health Reform agreed with the benches of the conservative parties and La U.
“Ready to carry out the best possible reform for the health of Colombians,” added the president of that corporation.
In this regard, Mondragón stated that the paper was filed with the signature of six of the nine speakers of the project. These are Alfredo Mondragón and Martha Alfonso (Historical Pact); German Gomez (Common Party); Juan Carlos Vargas (peace seats); Gerardo Yepes (Conservative Party) and Camilo Esteban Ávila (U Party).
“It is a very great conciliation effort that we have been making, to take into account what the political parties, the actors of the system and the citizenry say. The debate that is going to begin gives us the possibility of a process of a reconciliation process to have the right to health and protect resources”, said the project coordinator-speaker.
In the text of the presentation, article 141 mentions that the transformation of health promoting entities (EPS) that currently operate in the system will be done with the continuation of their services “for up to two years, provided they meet the conditions of permanence that applies to them.”
And further on it mentions that during that time “the EPS must progressively observe, on the dates defined by the regulation” parameters such as “collaborate in the organization of the Primary Health Care Centers”; subject “to the direct transfer by the ADRES to the institutions that provide public, private and mixed health services, providers of health technologies or pharmaceuticals”; be organized “progressively by territory according to the health planning and evaluation carried out by the competent bodies”, among others.
Likewise, in numeral 5 of that same article it confirms that, after these two years of transition, the EPS “that meet the requirements may become Health and Life Management Entities (EGSVI), in the following three months, which They may be of a private or mixed nature.”
President Gustavo Petro also broke the news on his Twitter account, indicating the parties that supported the presentation.
In addition, another of the points that made the heads of the Conservative, Liberal and La U parties drop the reform were the Territorial Health Councils. In the presentation, however, its creation is maintained in article 10. “The Territorial Health Councils will have a composition similar in their functions and members to the National Health Council, taking into account the particularities of the corresponding territory, and will have a (1) representative of the Public, Mixed or Private Primary Health Care Centers (CAPS).
With this, everything seems to be ready for the legislative debate to begin in the Chamber, where the reform will have to pass the first debate in the Seventh Commission.