A nun’s message to Petro about sanitary reform

In a three-page public letter addressed to the President of the Republic, Sister María Inés Delgado, spokesperson for hundreds of Colombian patients for her work in health over the past 25 years, lamented what she described as the staunch approval of health reform in the Seventh Committee of the Chamber.

He asserts that although they were invited to speak and participate in the discussions, their voices were not heard and that after their interventions, nothing changed.

“I wrote this letter from my heart because people hurt me, what happens to them hurts me and it seems to me that this reform does not solve the basic health problems, on the contrary, we are regressing in all our rights,” he said. Sister Maria Inés Delgado, spokesperson for the patients of Colombia.

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For Sister Delgado, reform as it stands will lead to a progressive and rapid decline in the rights of the people, especially the sick.

“Venezuela comes to mind, which was a wealthy government at the beginning of Chávez’s reign; I had to take in patients for transplants and today there is no way to respond to people. Pardon my words, but I cannot silence what hurts others,” he said.

In this way, Sister Maria Inés made an appeal to those in the country who have the power to make this kind of transcendent decision:

“That is why this is a call for people who make decisions to do so calmly, with generosity, thinking of others, not of their being, or their political interests, much less.”

In his message, he stressed that in order to provide health to the forgotten Colombians, the public, financial, cultural and other problems affecting them must first be resolved.

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