Do hospitals have a future?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18597/rcog.207Abstract
The public hospital crisis has resulted from the crisis affecting the system and not its cause. The future for public hospitals in Colombia remains unclear in the current healthcare insurance model, as this has been based on a free market healthcare model which is managed by private Profit- Making Organizations (healthcare-providing entity - EPS). There is also disloyal competition between hospitals and clinics belonging to these EPS and public and private entities, a type of money-grubbing war which has already been experienced in other areas of the economy, with disheartening results.
Unless in-depth corrective action is taken, the public hospitals will not be able to continue carrying out their special functions, such as dealing with sectors of the population having pathologies involving low economic profitability even though being services having very high social profitability, such supply having always been present and which will continue being supplied in the future.
Author Biography
Herman Redondo-Gómez
Director de Desarrollo de Servicios
Secretaría Distrital de Salud
References
Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS). Exposición de motivos. Resolución CD49.R22; 2009.
Congreso de Colombia. Ley 1438 de 2011. Título VI. Capítulo II. Artículo 60.
Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). Conferencia Internacional Atención Primaria en Salud; 1978 septiembre 6-12; Alma Ata, Kazajstán.
Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). Informe sobre la Salud en el Mundo. La atención primaria en salud más necesaria que nunca. Ginebra, Suiza; 2008.
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