According to Mulino, the unification of the Ministry of Health and the Social Security Fund must be done now, because the duplication of structures is affecting those who most deserve dignified care.
The creation of the Commission for the Integration of Public Health Services, attached to the Ministry of Health, was formalized this week by the Minsa and the Social Security Fund.
The commission will be responsible for coordinating the integration process between the public institutions of the sector, monitoring its progress, verifying compliance with the guidelines established in Law 51, reporting to the President of the Republic on progress and results, and also drafting its own internal regulations.
This commission must monitor the process of functional integration between the Social Security Fund (CSS), Minsa, and other public health entities.
The commission is made up of representatives from Minsa, who will preside over it, the Ministry of the Presidency, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), the CSS, and the health sector's boards of directors, each with their respective alternate.
"I want that integration to work and quickly," he said before doctors, authorities, and neighbors of Bugaba.
Yesterday, during his Thursday conference, President José Raúl Mulino urged to speed up this integration.
"Work as if you were a single institution."
The president emphasized that it makes no sense to build duplicate hospitals: "Why have a MINSA hospital here and another Social Security fund one across the street?" In addition, it may have an Executive Secretariat to facilitate its operations.
The decree formalizing this commission is already published in the Official Gazette, which responds to a constitutional mandate that requires the organic and functional coordination of government health services, as well as the provisions of the Organic Law of the CSS, which orders progress towards a unified public system without affecting the institutional autonomy of this entity.
That makes no sense at all.
