High-level mission from WHO and PAHO will advise on Health Reform

On topics such as the transition process, technical support and identification of critical areas.

A high-level mission from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will visit the country between February 6 and 9, in order to provide technical cooperation to the proposed Health Reform. Health System, which will be presented by the National Government to the Congress of the Republic.

The WHO/PAHO mission, made up of nine people, will participate in a dialogue around topics such as the proposal for Health System Reform, its transition process, the design and development of a joint strategy for technical support for the proposal of Reform of the Health System and, also, in the identification of critical areas that can influence the technical and political feasibility of the transition process towards health reform in Colombia.

Among the members of the WHO/PAHO high-level mission are the Director of the Special Program for Primary Health Care of the WHO in Geneva (Switzerland), Suraya Dalil; the Director of the PAHO Health Systems and Services Area, James Fitzgerald; the Head of the Health Services and Access Unit of PAHO, Ernesto Báscolo; PAHO Health Systems and Services Advisor, Gisela Alarcón.

The PAHO Health Financing Specialist, Juan Pablo Pagano, will also participate; the PAHO/WHO Representative in Colombia, Gina Tambini; the PAHO/WHO Advisor in Colombia, Mónica Padilla; the PAHO/WHO Disease Prevention and Control Advisor in Colombia, Guillermo Gonzalvez, and the PAHO Colombia Family, Health Promotion and Life Course Advisor, Evelyne Degraff.

Meanwhile, the delegation of the National Government will be led by the Minister of Health, Carolina Corcho, who will be accompanied by the Vice Minister of Social Protection, directors of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, as well as designated officials of the group that is leading the preparation of the Health System Reform proposal.

The visit of this WHO mission to Colombia is the fulfillment of the agreement reached by President Gustavo Petro with the Director of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a meeting that took place within the framework of the World Economic Forum that took place in Davos ( Swiss).

Finally, according to the schedule, face-to-face meetings will be held at the facilities of the Ministry of Health and each of the meetings will have an agenda agreed upon in advance, which is validated at the beginning and guides the development of the sessions.

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