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At the moment, it is known that the model plan outlined for La Guajira includes the creation of Primary Care Centers (CAPS) that will benefit 800,000 families. For this it will be necessary to increase the medical staff to around 300 doctors and 600 nurses. According to the Ministry of the branch, the recruitment of plant health personnel will allow continuous and quality care to be provided to the population, thus strengthening the health system in La Guajira.
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In addition, direct contracts will be established between the State, clinics and hospitals to improve the management of resources and the provision of services, in addition to the implementation of home visits by health teams to each ranchería, thus ensuring that no individual or community is excluded from medical care.
The Government’s proposal is presented just when several health unions previously alerted about a serious lack of financing in the sector that did not seem to have solvency with the budget addition approved a few weeks ago.
Faced with this and other questions, the former health minister and director of the Así Vamos en Salud observatory, Augusto Galán, explains how a series of uncertainties are being spun that, from the sector, are expected to have a prompt response.
Moreover, when the document (the decree) is read, it becomes evident that the problem comes from behind. It will be necessary to see from the constitutional and legal point of view if it is something that is foreseeablewhich is cyclical, which alternates with the phenomenon of the girl and which has been demonstrated for many years, is a supervening fact.
We will have to wait for the Constitutional Court to declare the decree enforceable, but even if that happens, one wonders if the situation of poverty and corruption is really going to change. This fight will have to continue because this cannot be solved with a two or three month social emergency decree.
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