Health reform will put an end to the paradigm of citizen belonging

The Ministry of Health reiterated that the proposal passed to the Directors of Health Resources (EPS) is for the initiation of Moving to strengthen the health service delivery network (clinics and hospitals in the country) And as a result, the model of linking to the system that we know today.

In this scenario proposed by the government, “Citizens do not have to join, but rather register. The user registers at the health center, because today he is taken care of in those places, and he will be registered there, ”explained Carolina Corcho, Minister of Health.

Regarding the modifications, the official revealed that although the user linking model will change, the financing scheme will be maintained.

“The contributions that we pay, those of us who work, will have to continue to make. On the one hand, the system is financed through taxes. The system has always been funded this way and will be maintained that way.” Cork added.

However, there are still doubts About the operational capacity that ADRES (the entity that conducts health resource cycles) may assume To make direct payments to all health service providers in the country.

In connection with the above, Radio Caracol consulted the Director of ADRES, Félix Leon Martínez, about the operational capacities that the organization will assume to achieve the objectives set in the reform. The official noted that ADRES will enter into a process of decentralization and regionalization, though “ADRES must grow 6 times compared to its current state to be able to respond to these needs”Martinez confirmed.

It should be said, based on the government’s proposal, and what the government announced about reform, that Prepared medicines and the mixed system of the health model (in coexistence between public and private clinics and hospitals) will be preserved. The official text of the reform will be known in the first week of February.