Public health
Colombia has universal healthcare, but resources are low compared to developed countries. Corruption is draining the system and limiting development. Life expectancy at birth Colombians’ life expectancy at birth has…
Colombia has universal healthcare, but resources are low compared to developed countries. Corruption is draining the system and limiting development. Life expectancy at birth Colombians’ life expectancy at birth has…
Colombia’s government health watchdog is being investigated for allegedly certifying health products in return for bribes, according to newspaper El Tiempo. The National Institute of Medicine and Nutritional Oversight (Invima),…
A town in a war-torn region in northern Colombia has been left without a hospital after the killing of a doctor spurred his colleagues to flee on Sunday. Doctor Cristian…
Colombia’s ongoing healthcare crisis threatens to imminently bankrupt the sector’s government watchdog that has been ordered to pay the hospital bills of liquidated health intermediaries. A recent order by a…
Colombia’s Comptroller General seized assets of 10 health intermediary companies for charging patients for treatments covered by their . According to the Comptroller General’s Office, the so-called EPS intermediaries charged both…
Colombia arrested four health officials on suspicion they caused the death of 16 babies who were given fake medicines to treat respiratory illnesses. The suspects are two directors of pharmaceutical…
Prosecutors arrested the former director of a private healthcare intermediary over the alleged embezzlement of more than $105 billion, equivalent to 5% of Colombia’s GDP, in health funds. The arrest…
Colombia’s troubled public healthcare system lost $160 million as a result of fraud in 2017 alone, prosecution officials told newspaper El Tiempo. The newspaper reported that authorities have uncovered 18 networks…
Ten people were arrested after authorities found out that mentally challenged children were tied down and drugged in a government-contracted private clinic, authorities said Thursday. The ten worked in a mental…