The Minister of Health was the technical structure

This week in the Congress of the Republic, The Minister of Health, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, denied his responsibility for the problems that have arisen with the new health model of the teaching profession. claiming that That is not within its functions.

“I do not have to respond, it does not correspond to the functions of my ministerial position as I demonstrated and furthermore, There is a false motivation because I am not the one who structuresstructure is the council, the one who implements is undoubtedly the fiduciary,” he said.

However, Sigue La W knew the agreement 03 of 2024 signed on April 1, 2024 by the Minister of Education, Aurora Vergara, as president of FOMAG and Claudia Jineth Álvarez Benítez, Technical Secretary where in the first article of this document the guidelines are agreed for the hiring of the new health model for teachers who within the structuring team are the ministries of Finance, Labor and Education and It also reports that this new system “will have the technical assistance of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection.”

Additionally, Follows La W learned about minute number 18 of November 29, 2023 of the FOMAG Board of Directors, where clearly, among those invited to the discussion, Minister Jaramillo is there, Even, in one of these meetings, the Vice Minister of Health, Jaime Urrego, assures that President Petro was the one who asked them to join this cause of changing the teachers’ health system.

Even on April 28, the Minister of Health accompanied the ministries that are members of the FOMAG board of directors and assured that “with the work entrusted to us by the President of the Republic, We have worked with Fecode, with the fiduciary, minHacienda, MinEducación and MinTrabajo so that after more than 6 months, Today we can present this health model to the country“, followed by that, the minister technically presents how health care is made up.

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