2023-11-20 21:18:49
This Monday, within the framework of an extraordinary assembly, the Government made changes in the two positions that correspond to it on the board of directors of the Nueva EPS, the largest of this type of company in the country and where the State has participation. The private parties, majority owners of the company, also made changes.
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Although for several months there have been rumors of changes in this company, where there are currently 10 million members, only until now have some changes been seen in this EPS, which is key to the health reform project proposed by the Government.
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According to the minutes of today’s extraordinary session, the Vice Minister of Health Jaime Urrego joined the board of directors; the former vice minister of Finance Fernando Jiménez Rodríguez and Fabio Alberto Cardona, the deputy director of the Family Compensation Fund (Cafam). For its part, the departure of Enrique Vargas Lleras was presented.
There it is key to highlight that the Government has two positions within the board of directors, which were the ones that changed today. The private sector did its thing with Cardona’s entry.
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As EL TIEMPO learned, for now the incoming members have to officially accept these candidacies and begin an induction process.
It is key to note that the composition of Nueva EPS is mixed, where half plus one of its shares are private, through the participation of compensation funds, and half minus one is state, through the Ministry of Finance.
When consulted by this newspaper, the Minister of Health, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, assured that what they are looking for is to have people they completely trust in the face of the commitments they have as a Government.
“In the New EPS we have two members, out of five, and we consider it important to have a person who has all the capacity from a health point of view to be able to advance the work that must be done in the New EPS. The only thing we are doing is having people who are committed to this Government and who understand perfectly well what commitments we have,” Jaramillo highlighted.
The official, however, did not respond to the question of whether there will be changes in the management of the EPS and this medium was able to learn that for now, among the board of directors, there has been no talk of changes in the president or its Steering Committee.
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