During the weekend, President Gustavo Petro together with the National Superintendent of Health, Luis Carlos Leal Angarita, toured the department of La Guajira and visited the San José de Maicao Hospital, where inaugurated a new multifunctional hospitalization room that will have 18 new beds properly equipped and equipped, which will improve the resolution capacity and medical care of the health center.
As such, The expansion and modernization work required an investment of 3,788 million pesos, contributed by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection. For his part, the Colombian president also presented new extramural teams that would provide their services from this hospital, in order to guarantee comprehensive care to Wayuu families in their own territory.
Likewise, the head of state will deliver a truck-type vehicle that will allow the mobilization of these teams, as well as basic equipment for 40 indigenous nursing assistants. It is worth mentioning that this hospital has maintained an administrative intervention measure to be managed by Supersalud since June 2016, and that runs until June 15, 2024; time in which they have identified significant advances that make this intervention a successful example of articulated work.
The president, together with the superintendent, in turn attended the signing of the agreement between the ICBF and the San José de Maicao Hospital, which seeks to guarantee the care, monitoring and recovery of girls, boys and pregnant women at risk of malnutrition, especially from of the municipalities of Uribia, Manaure and Maicao.
“What we see today at the San José de Maicao Hospital is proof that the Government of Change is complying. That health resources must be protected in order to provide dignified and timely care. This is proof that a public hospital can grow, have projection, increase its capacity, and can link the community to work in an articulated way for the well-being of all,” said Leal.
In addition, he thanked the director of the ICBF, Astrid Cáceres, and promised to do his best to ensure that all intervened and non-intervened hospitals reach this type of agreement in which the health and well-being of families are articulated.
Supersalud visited the Nuestra Señora de los Remedios Hospital
As part of the agenda, the superintendent also toured the facilities of the Nuestra Señora de los Remedios Hospital with its manager, Cristian Eduardo Brito, who expressed the need for resources that this healthcare center has and the enormous debt it maintains with several EPS. According to the official, the debt is close to 40,000 million pesos.
For his part, the superintendent along with his work team managed to highlight the precarious conditions of the facilities where the children’s pavilion operated in previous years, which is currently out of service. Likewise, the progressive deterioration of the emergency and outpatient consultation area was observed, and the operating capacity, the attention of the staff and the equipment that the hospital has to provide quality services to users were verified.
“We visited each corner of the facilities, we learned about the projects that the manager has to increase productivity and to guarantee that a public hospital, which today provides services to the population of Riohacha, can be strengthened and can guarantee more and more capabilities”said Leal Angarita.
As Leal states, Supersalud has been carrying out rigorous surveillance to guarantee that health resources reach where they should go and with this type of inspections it is where the serious failures that the health system is having can be evidenced.
“We continue to accompany those under surveillance, but we also continue to strengthen those strategies that we can articulate together to guarantee the fundamental right of all people.”“said the National Superintendent of Health.
