The realities, challenges and perspectives of health in Colombia was the common thread of the Forum that was held at the Francisco José de la Caldas Auditorium, and which featured the presentation of expert speakers in the health sector in the country and the region .

With the participation of the former Governor of the Valley, Dilian Francisco Toro; the Director of Asmet Salud, Gustavo Adolfo Aguilar; From the Manager of the Hospital Susana López, Eduardo Villa Muñoz and from the Coordinator of the AIC IPSI program, Janeth Cerón, the Forum 'Current health situation in Colombia' was held at the University of Cauca, the event was moderated by the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Edgar Parra Romero. The speakers presented the approaches to the implementation of the MAITE Comprehensive Territorial Action Model, indicating that the model to decentralize service and the right to health is aimed at generating direct benefits for all communities in an equitable and relevant manner. .

It should be remembered that the MAITE scheme seeks to guide in an articulated way the management of the members of the Health System in the territory to respond to the health priorities of the population and contribute to the improvement of health, satisfying the expectations of citizens and the sustainability of the System, under the leadership of the department or district.

The participants agreed in affirming that to achieve this purpose it is necessary to advance in the development of Comprehensive Health Care Networks as a way to speed up the delivery of health services in IPS and EPS with quality. “The inefficiency of the system is an issue that affects everyone. The MAITE scheme has many difficult challenges to meet at any given time. To achieve inter-sectorality”, indicated the Director of Asmet Salud, Gustavo Adolfo Aguilar.

In this sense, the former Governor of the Valley, Dilian Francisco Toro, explained that there are models of care that can be done. "I have been telling EPS to make a model of integrated networks of health services, it is the only way where EPS would contract services with a network and patients would not have so many difficulties in their care," she said.

As a successful experience, the Indigenous System of Own and Intercultural Health SISPI was presented at the event, by Janeth Cerón, health coordinator of the AIC IPSI, who indicated that this model is different, in which intermediation is not the basis of the process, the direction of the system is taken with the real participation of the people. "It is a system where the diversity of peoples is respected," he said.

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