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Colombia sinks healthcare reform amid pressure from anti …
WEBAdriaan Alsema May 19, 2021. Colombia’s Congress sunk a government-proposed health reform, dealing a major blow to far-right President Ivan Duque on behalf of anti-government protesters on Wednesday. The health reform is the second major government reform bill to bite the dust after the president withdraw a loathed tax reform proposal earlier
Colombia's congress sinks Petro's flagship healthcare reform
WEBby Adriaan Alsema April 4, 2024. Colombia’s Congress sunk a healthcare reform that was one of the flagship policy proposals of President Gustavo Petro ’s government. Ahead of the vote, the Health Superintendent assumed control over two of the countries largest healthcare firms that jointly coordinate the healthcare of more than 16 million
Largest cities in Colombia reverse reopening as coronavirus …
WEBColombia’s capital Bogota and the country’s second largest city, Medellin, will reinstate partial lockdowns as COVID-19 is threatening to collapse healthcare. In Bogota, Mayor Claudia Lopez said Saturday that she…
How fake patients ended up bleeding healthcare in northern …
WEBby Adriaan Alsema January 24, 2018. Health contractors in northern Colombia embezzled tens of millions of dollars by funding expensive medicine for ghost patients, the country’s inspector general said Tuesday. The country’s Inspector General found that 800 fake patients were receiving compensation for expensive AIDS medicine.
COVID-19 all but collapses healthcare in Colombia's largest cities
WEBColombia’s healthcare system found itself on the brink of collapse on Wednesday as hospitals in Medellin and Cali reported they were all but saturated, days after healthcare in the capital Bogota collapsed.. The situation is most critical in the capital where the Bogota Medical College said that no intensive care units were available due …
Health epidemic facing north Colombia result of Cerro Matoso …
WEBby Steven Cohen August 6, 2013. Disturbing health abnormalities afflicting various towns in northern Colombia stem from the communities’ close proximity to the Cerro Matoso open-cast mine, according to environmental and health activists in the region. A recent segment from newscast Noticias Uno affirms longtime fears that the mine, the fourth
Colombia's main cities shut down as COVID threatens
WEBThe mayors of the capital Bogota and Colombia’s two largest cities, Medellin and Cali, issued weekend-long curfews to prevent their saturated hospital systems from collapsing. These three cities alone are home to more than a quarter of the country’s population. President Ivan Duque said earlier this week he would extend a “selective
Colombia denies reports healthcare system is collapsing
WEBWhile local authorities alerted Colombia’s healthcare system has begun collapsing, the Health Ministry said it has been strengthened. Despite spending months on social media, reality threatens to slowly catch up on President Ivan Duque.. The number of deaths of COVID-19 continues to accelerate, local and regional authorities threaten to …
Cali: An emerging medical tourism destination
WEBThe western Colombian city of Cali is emerging as one of the country’s most popular destinations for medical tourism, reported El Tiempo on Tuesday. Previously known as the sports and salsa capital of South America, Cali now counts some 50,000 visitors a year who are looking for cheaper and higher-quality medical treatments. Almost a third of
Bogota's race against the clock to prevent healthcare collapse
WEBThe coronavirus is coming eerily close to collapsing the healthcare system in Colombia’s capital Bogota, which saw its intensive care unit availability drop from 50% to 30% in just 10 days.. Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez said Wednesday the government had sent out the first 130 new ventilators that would expand the hospitals’ capacity to treat …
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El Niño in Colombia: what's happening and what will happen
WEBby Claire Dennis October 13, 2015. Nine of Colombia’s 32 provinces are in a state of emergency due to extreme drought, high temperatures and forest fires caused by El Niño that threatens to continue disrupting weather until March. The last three months of the year historically bring the highest amount and frequency of rainfall in the country
Poverty and inequality Colombia Reports
WEBPoverty in Colombia decreased in last year after a major surge caused by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.. Colombia’s poverty rate. Colombia poverty rate dropped slightly in 2022, the statistics agency DANE said in its annual report. According to the DANE, almost 19 million people lived off less than $97,94 (COP396,864) per month last …
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Colombia's healthcare show: 'If you get seriously ill, you die'
WEBHow the minister is whitewashing carnage. The health minister used the abandoned hospital as the location for a propaganda video starring a whole team of people wearing personal protection equipment that almost 90% of Colombia’s hospital workers were never given, according to the Colombian Medical Federation.
The rackets that put Colombia's healthcare system on the brink of …
WEBThe coronavirus pandemic has made it painfully evident how the rackets crippling the system work. After declaring a health emergency in mid-March, President Ivan Duque vowed a $1.5 billion capital injection that would cancel the private health intermediaries’ debts to hospitals who in turn would be able to pay their personnel’s back …
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Duque opposes lockdown in Colombia's capital despite healthcare …
WEBColombia’s President Ivan Duque said Thursday he opposes shutting down Bogota for a second time despite the collapse of the capital’s healthcare system.. The shutdown was proposed by the country’s medical organizations and supported by Mayor Claudia Lopez, but would end Duque’s controversial economic reactivation strategy. …
Aguapanela: The Truth
WEBFor the uninitiated, aguapanela is Colombian ‘tea’. It is made from panela, an unrefined sugarcane juice, which is boiled at a high temperature and then allowed to cristalize. Combine the crystalized sugarcane, hot water and lemon or milk and you have aguapanela. Listo. It’s an acquired taste, one could say.
The victims of Colombia aerial fumigation
WEBThe victims of Colombia aerial fumigation. by Connor Paige April 4, 2014. The rural farmers who are negatively impacted by aerial fumigation in Colombia are one of the most overlooked groups affected by the continuing drug conflict in the South American nation. The livelihoods and health of small-scale farmers are continuously threatened by …
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