He Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urrego recently posted on his account Twitter a image of 2019 of the OECDalso known as Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developmentwhere is shown in number of nurses and doctors of each country for each 1,000 inhabitants.
In the graph you see Colombia in the last place (position 39) with 2.3 doctors and 1.4 nurses per thousand inhabitantsabove are Türkiye, Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica. In this way, the Colombian president wants to show the imperative of health reform which is being driven by the minister of that portfolio, Carolina Corcho.
“This is the number of nurses and doctors per thousand inhabitants in all OECD countries. We are in last place. Even so, they believe that a reform of the health system is not necessary. Low wages and educational rickets lead us to this last place”, President Gustavo Petro said through that tweet.
Several cyber users affirmed that –from what is known up to now of the article that would transform the Health Promotion Companies (EPS)– Nowhere is there talk of any strategy to have a greater number of doctors and nurses in it Colombian health system.
“In none of its reforms does it bring solutions to this”, “The differential is in the access to specialists and nursing. For this, advanced practice, recognition and variation in education are urgently needed. Nothing is in the reform”, “although what he points out is true, it must also be said that the health reform proposed by your government does not contain solutions to this problem”, “What part of the health reform talks about the generation of more health personnel?”, and “The diagnosis is indisputable, what is not clear is that the solution to this rickets is to end any type of private insurance”, were some of the comments that are read in the trill of the Colombian president.
The last former Ministers of Health, Alejandro Gaviria and Fernando Ruíz, they are still not convinced by the articles of the government of Gustavo Petro on health reform.
For example, Gaviria through his account Twitter He pointed out: “A health reform must be clear about the existing problems, those that it can solve and those that cannot. The proposed reform does not address issues related to human talent. It may even make them worse if the reform leads to a financial crisis (a likely scenario)”.
While Fernando Ruiz has stated: “the president’s advisers should remind him that the low number of doctors and nurses is due to Law 30 of 1992 that regulates higher education. All doctors and nurses in the labor market in 30 years have been employed in the sector. 137,000 doctors by 2023″.
Added to the criticism Andrés Vecino, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University, who pointed out that: “Yes. There is a low number of doctors and nurses not only compared to the OECD but also to the region, but: lThe current reform does not improve this problem and some measures such as the tariff manual could, in fact, make it worse”.
The Conservative party and that of the U announced their withdrawal from the negotiation table of the health reform of the Government of Gustavo Petroled by the Minister Carolina Corcho, On Twitter, different political figures from the country reacted to the imminent collapse of the project. From the opposition they celebrated that the conservatives and the U have departed from the project.
The first to announce that he was leaving the negotiation table was the president of the Conservative Party, Senator Efraín Cepeda:
“We will not attend one more meeting of the Health Reform Bill because we consider it a waste of time.”
The director of the U, Dilian Francisca Toro, also announced that her party was getting up from the negotiation table, since they did not see their contributions reflected. And she announced that they will present an alternate paper that includes the proposals of the other parties.
“After receiving the presentation of the health reform project, we find that the agreed agreements are not contemplated, for which we will present an alternate presentation that includes the proposals presented by the parties to save lives,” Toro trilled.
