Health ministers from Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela held its annual meeting, strengthening the integrationist and unifying their efforts to improve health conditions of the inhabitants of the region.
This time the primary focus of the meeting was to evaluate a possible joint purchase of drugs through the Strategic Fund of the Pan American Health Organization, which allows flexibility in the procurement process, ensuring that each country gets what necessary, but at prices more convenient, faster and safer.
this regard, the Minister of Health of Chile, Dr. Jaime Mañalich, said that "it is an obligation grow as the Andean countries and work to improve the quality of health, have good drugs and get to become developed countries. "
also pointed out that "The Andean countries are facing a complex situation is the opportunity to transform the declining birth rate in an educated and healthy. If we fail, we will be all old and poor countries rather than developed and healthy. It is the biggest challenge facing health workers and to which we must respond resolutely, "he said upon assuming the presidency of REMSAA XXXII.
In the same vein the Executive Secretariat of the Andean Health Agency-Hipólito Unanue, Caroline Chang, said that the slogan "all power to all, no one lacks anything, should guide the work and be synonymous with development and life, and how he thought the Chilean poet, Gabriela Mistral."
The Andean countries are more than forty years working for the unity of the region in the health sector, making considerable progress in the implementation of successful health policies such as the fight against AIDS.
Both authorities stressed the importance of strengthening surveillance and exchange information on diseases that have no relevance elsewhere, solving problems Common region:
Source: www.gob.cl
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