An audit conducted by government health agency SuperSalud has found numerous irregularities in the provision of medication and mismanagement of funds by numerous Colombian health insurance companies, reported RCN Tuesday.…
The Portuguese government has contracted 42 Colombian doctors to work in the country due to a scarcity of local medics, international media reported Monday. Portugal’s Deputy State Health Secretary Manuel…
Two Colombian plastic surgeons were arrested in Las Vegas after an alleged patient of the doctors was found dead, several media report. The two Medellin natives were arrested in Las…
The Medellin municipal government will initiate this year’s free surgery program by providing surgical assistance to 15 young boys and girls in the city, according to a press release from…
Don’t let their youth fool you. These young Bogota surgeons are well versed in the latest technologies and the newest surgical techniques, and are changing the face of, and bringing…
Colombian scientist Manuel Elkin Patarroyo has discovered the chemical properties which will permit the creation of synthetic vaccines to prevent virtually all the existing infectious diseases in the world. The…
Sixteen foreigners underwent an organ transplant operation in Colombia in 2010 compared to 22 the year before, the National Health Institute announces. According to government statistics, the 16 foreign patients…
The Santa Fe de Bogota hospital in Colombia’s capital is one of few hospitals in Latin America that is able to treat advanced abdominal cancers such as colon, gynecological, and…
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…