2023-05-11 23:30:00
Health Minister Guillermo Jaramillo delivered strong accusations in the midst of the health reform debateas he assured that with the covid-19 pandemic they set up “a business” in Colombia by tripling the Intensive Care Units to receive patients with complications.
(Keep reading: Minister of Health: ‘Here we are to defend the poor, not the elite’).
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“In our department they opened ICUs as if they opened any type of drugstore. I would like us to see how many came out of those units alive,” he said.
“The most dangerous thing in this world is going to an ICU without having the people trained and qualified to attend to that. They have not told us, but a very big business was made with the covid,” he added.
According to your perception, the virus “solved a lot of problems, but not for people because it made them poorer.”
(In addition: The slow pace of the health reform: following 9 hours they only approved 3 articles).
The statements regarding the UCI have been rejected by some specialists in the fieldgiven that the country went through critical moments with seriously ill patients, precisely because it did not have adequate equipment for care.
Julián Fernández, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was one of the experts who criticized what the doctor and now minister said: “This is an incorrect and offensive statement with our health professionals. ICU expansion was essential for the response in Colombia and the world. If lethality was high, it was due to comorbidities and the virulence of SARS-COV-2. It would have been higher without them”.
‘We are here to defend the poor, not the elite’
Those were not the only statements by the minister who replaced Carolina Corcho. Also assured that the health reform is not going to be statist, since the change is intended to be built with everyone: public agents, private companies, patients, EPS, whoever is involved in the health sector and with Colombians.
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“It is not the reform of Petro or Corcho, it is that of all of us,” shared the person who arrived at the ministry on April 26.
It highlighted the precariousness of the system that ends up affecting low-income populations. “Roy Barreras had an executive exam, they have done it to me. When does a farmer from El Tarra have that type of medical analysis to detect colon cancer early? They die, like the children of La Guajira of hunger, malnutrition, parasitism,” Jaramillo said.
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