Parents said Thursday that Colombia’s hospitals have been refusing treatment to children with cancer following a “hospital expansion” order that seeks to create capacity to deal with coronavirus infections. The…
While Colombia’s health minister was in the southeastern town of Leticia faking aid, locals were building the first repository for the town’s growing number of COVID-19 deaths. The capital of…
Eight health workers have died and 560 have been infected by the coronavirus in Colombia, the National Health Institute (INS) said Wednesday as medical organizations call for the urgent provision…
Colombia’s health minister said Thursday he will pay health workers’ back payments amid confusion over where the $1.5 billion promised by President Ivan Duque six weeks ago went. In Duque’s…
The government of Colombia’s southeastern Amazonas province urged for help on Tuesday after a coronavirus outbreak almost instantly collapsed its healthcare system. The National Health Institute (INS) reported that the…
Instead of bolstering Colombia’s healthcare system in order to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals claim the government of President Ivan Duque is pushing them even closer to bankruptcy. According…
Colombia’s national health institute INS released a report in which it calculated that the coronavirus would have killed between 212,000 and 381,000 people by mid June had President Ivan Duque…
Even a “minor surge” of the coronavirus would collapse Colombia’s public healthcare system, the vice-president of the Colombian Medical Federation (FMC) warned as the government seeks to restart economic activity.…
Colombia’s health ministry rolled back a forced labor order for doctors and nurses on Thursday after fierce protests by the country’s medical community. Health Minister Fernando Ruiz issued a decree…