Paraguay
Chase backed the changes in Health and admitted Cartes’s complaint may have had an impact
The Cartista senator considered the arrival of Isaías Fretes at the Ministry of Health and Derlis León at the IPS positive. According to ABC Color, he also acknowledged that Horacio Cartes’s criticism of the health situation may have influenced Santiago Peña’s decision.
Senator Natalicio Chase praised the reshuffle in the leadership of the Ministry of Health and the Social Security Institute, where Isaías Fretes and Derlis León were appointed, respectively. According to ABC Color, the lawmaker said both have experience in the health system and expressed expectations of an improvement in management.
Chase said the change was a demand they had been raising for some time and argued that the crisis in the sector is explained not only by a lack of resources, but also by the way institutions are managed. In that line, he said he expects changes in how the system operates.
According to ABC Color, the leader of the Cartista bench was also asked about the impact that Horacio Cartes’s public request to Santiago Peña to prioritize health may have had. Although he downplayed that possibility, he acknowledged that the appeal, repeated on different occasions and also during the ANR anniversary, probably carried weight in the decision.
The Paraguayan outlet also reported that Chase declined to comment on criticism over an alleged delay in María Teresa Barán’s departure. Instead, he stressed that the health crisis is structural and goes beyond any one person or administration.
Still according to ABC Color, the senator said Fretes knows firsthand the reality of hospitals and assured that Santiago Peña is focused on finding a way out of the conflict with doctors, which has lasted more than a month.
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