Month: April 2012

MADRID, 10 ( EUROPA PRESS) Institute for the development and integration of health ( IDIS) has shown his satisfaction that “finally” the Government carried out what are necessary reforms for a health care system “exhausted and untenable”. In a statement, the IDIS has argued that it is necessary to adopt measures of “cost containment” to ensure effective administration and thus the sustainability of the health system. According to this agency, current public health debt around 15,700 million euros. The Institute has claimed that the executive measures are aimed to provide the entire population of some “health benefits basic with a universal character that should ensure a quality health care, both in matters of accessibility and the level of benefits”. In this sense, the IDIS has offered the State services of their clients to understand that the private health sector constitutes “an important strategic ally of the public health system”, being a “pillar” the collaboration between the two to ensure quality in the management and sustainability of the Spanish system. El IDIS is defined as an entity non-profit that aims to highlight the contribution of the private health to the health of our country and promoting the improvement of the health of all Spaniards. The Board of Trustees of the IDIS is composed of 18 groups of private hospitals and insurance companies involved in private...

La Paz, 10 APR ( EFE).-thousands of doctors today resumed the strike against the Decree of the Bolivian President, Evo Morales, which increases its 6 to 8 hour workday, at the beginning of a wave of Trade Union and social conflicts that the Government tries to stop legal action, on the grounds that they violate the Constitution. Doctors resume their protest after the Ministry of Health announced that he keeps the Decree, despite the fact that last week had agreed to discuss the day, which led to a truce of the strike which began on March 28. The President of the Medical College of Bolivia, Alfonso neighborhoods, told reporters that the strike resumes “to achieve the repeal of the Decree, because it is illegal and unworkable”. In the clinics of peace Hospital, doctors and nurses clashed with supporters of the Government requiring them to return to work and that they were driven by the force of the place. Barrios denied that the strike violates the Constitution, as the Government claims, and defended its right to keep the labour conquest of 6 hours a day of work, which dates from 1970. Argued that longer hours of work do not improve health care, which in his view requires more and better hospitals, because Bolivia are half of the 20th century, when the country had half of its current 10 million. The...