Petro anuncia creación de central única de compra de medicamentos para EPS intervenidas
El presidente Gustavo Petro anunció la creación de una central única de compra de medicamentos destinada a las EPS intervenidas, con el propósito de eliminar la especulación y el acaparamiento que, según afirmó, caracterizan al actual sistema de salud.
TL;DR
- A single drug purchasing center will be created for intervened EPS.
- This center aims to eliminate speculation and hoarding of medicines.
- Purchases will be made directly from abroad to negotiate better prices.
- Laboratories with prices above market rates will not be purchased from.
- The measure is exclusively for EPS under state intervention.
- It is part of a strategy to strengthen the preventive health system and control costs.
- President Petro criticized private EPS as a 'mechanism of usury, greed, theft, and death'.