2023-11-01 12:49:07
Given the decision of Cruz Verde drugstores and pharmacies to suspend the supply of medications, supplies and technologies that are not in the Basic Health Plan (PBS) to EPS Sanitas members, the Comptroller’s Office announced a series of measures.
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The control entity reported on the morning of this Wednesday, November 1, that it declared the case to have “national impact” and “formed a specialized team” from the Special Investigations Unit once morest Corruption in order to have first-hand knowledge of the information on the topic.
“The declaration of national impact in the case of the EPS Sanitas and Droguerías Cruz Verde will allow the Comptroller’s Office to obtain quick results in order to avoid possible detriment to health resources, over which this control body exercises monitoring. permanent,” the Comptroller’s Office reported in a statement.
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The acting vice comptroller of Comptroller General of the Republic, Carlos Mario Zuluaga, pointed out that currently, the Health delegate “conducts a performance audit of the flow of resources in the health system to determine the weaknesses and bottlenecks it presents. the system, an exercise that is carried out for the first time and that audits around 240 billion.”
The official also reiterated his call to actors in the health sector “to ensure the rights of patients and guarantee the non-interruption of treatments for critical illnesses.”
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On the other hand, the Comptroller’s Office reported that in the last year, this Anti-Corruption Unit “has processed 14 actions on health issues in the amount of $630,933 million, within which 4 accusations of fiscal responsibility have been made, for $274,201 million and 3 rulings with first instance fiscal responsibility, for $389,619 million.”
In response to this problem regarding medicines in the country, the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca ordered the Ministry of Health and the National Institute for Medicines and Food Surveillance (Invima) to generate an urgent action plan to address the shortage.
The magistrate gave the Minsalud and Invima a period of 10 days to generate the plan that ensures the availability of the medicines prioritized by the Ministry and the other active ingredients that have an insufficient supply compared to the needs of the population.
They must also prioritize the processing and resolution of the 27,904 applications for registration of medicines that are submitted to Invima and that are currently pending, in order to guarantee availability in institutional and commercial channels.
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