IPS restores medical providers to its policyholders within the Paraguayan Chaco

Asunción, IP Company.- The Social Safety Institute (IPS) introduced that beginning this Wednesday, Might 22, it’s going to restore medical care providers to its insured individuals within the Paraguayan Chaco, by way of the personal hospitals of the Mennonite cooperatives, which had suspended care a month in the past as a result of lack of of a brand new settlement with the pension.

«At this time we met with representatives of the Mennonite cooperatives, with Mr. Gerhard Klassen, and we’ve got reached an settlement in order that from this Wednesday, Might 22, providers can be restored to IPS policyholders. within the Paraguayan Chaco,” reported the president of the IPS, Jorge Brítez, late on Tuesday.

Within the Paraguayan Chaco, the IPS registers roughly 40,000 insured individuals who should resort to non-public sanatoriums and hospitals, with which the pension system has service outsourcing agreements. The IPS doesn’t have its personal hospital on this area of the nation.

The suspension of the service had occurred as a result of termination of the outsourcing contracts; within the meantime, new phrases have been being negotiated for the continuity of the service. Nonetheless, the primary personal suppliers introduced the entire suspension of care till a brand new settlement was reached.

The president of the pension fund thanked the intermediation of the Chaco senator Orlando Penner, in addition to the cooperation and collaboration of the consultant of the Mennonite cooperatives, “to proceed offering medical providers to our insured.”