Yesterday due to lack of quorum, the health reform session in the House of Representatives was adjourned. In total, 12 more articles were approved.
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Health reform continues to be a ‘hot potato’ in the House of Representatives. Yesterday, due to lack of quorum, the session was adjourned, but the Government managed to get 12 more articles approved.
Among the approved articles are: 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 18; Among these is the creation of the Primary Health Care Centers (CAPS), the Comprehensive and Integrated Health Services Networks (RIISS) and the reference and counter-reference system.
The other block of approved articles was: 19, 20, 22, 24, 25 and 26; among which are health services and technologies in the preventive, predictive and resolution model, provision of specialized services for people with rare diseases and their prevention and departmental or district coordination of the networks.
At the end of the plenary session of the House of Representatives in which 12 articles of the health reform were approved, the Minister of Health, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, assured that the initiative: “It has been agreed upon and for that reason we have begun to do important work (…) there we see that it can be debated, unfortunately sometimes there is no debate.”
Today the debate continues in the House of Representatives.
