Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Monday ordered public health insurance companies (EPS) not to deny treatment to patients with deteriorating illnesses such as AIDS. According to the Court, EPS are not…
Colombia’s poorest 20 million people, almost half of the population, are at risk of being completely without health care in June because of a financial dispute between state health insurance…
Police said that more than $2.5 billion (COP 4.5 trillion) has been stolen from Colombians over the course of a major health care scandal, newspaper El Tiempo reported Tuesday. The…
Two Cuban citizens wanted for defrauding the United States healthcare system were expelled from Colombia by intelligence agency DAS W Radio reported Tuesday. Sisters Clara Guilarte Rodriguez and Caridad Guilarte…
After a meeting with the Ministry of Social Protection Wednesday President Juan Manuel Santos announced a measure to ensure that public funds go directly to the hospitals by “cutting out…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said that there were no irregularities or corruption at the Ministry of Social Protection, which the Inspector General’s Office found to have thousand of units…
There are 3.8 million Colombians with rare diseases that the government cannot treat due to lack of funding, according to the Ministry of Social Protection, Caracol Radio reported Friday. “The problem…
Bogota‘s District Health Department announces a comprehensive health care plan for displaced Colombians living in the city, Radio Santa Fe reported Tuesday. The new health policy will help the displaced…
A 17-year-old Colombian woman claims that doctors told her she had given birth to a boy, but that when she took the baby home five days later, she found she…