At the beginning of this year, the Executive branch of the government greeted us with some decrees declaring a very inopportune social emergency in an effort to put some order into the system. The orientation of those decrees was focused upon correcting problems through balancing out the grave financial disequilibria in the system by establishing a series of regulations controlling the medical practice of physicians and other health care professionals. These regulations were replete with explicit threats of ethical and economic sanctions to be levied against those who did not maintain the "financial equilibrium" of the system. In response an enormous movement of this countrys physicians, members of other health care professions, patients and civil society arose. That movement considered the decrees to be a serious attack on the rights of the Colombian people. Thankfully, the Constitutional Courts decision made it clear that this movements demands were just and necessary. Months before the Constitutional Court had made it clear that health is a fundamental right, which cannot be interfered with. In virtue of that fact every Colombian must have access to health care.
En los albores de este año, el Ejecutivo nos saludó con unos decretos que, a partir de la declaratoria de una muy poco oportuna emergencia social, intentaban poner orden en el sistema, que con una orientación enfocada a corregir problemas de forma intentaba equilibrar los graves descalabros financieros estableciendo una serie de "controles" a médicos y profesionales de la salud, aun con amenazas explicitas en términos de sanciones éticas y económicas, si no contribuían a mantener el "equilibrio financiero " del sistema, situación que dio origen a un gran movimiento donde participaron todos los médicos del país, acompañados de colegas de otras profesiones de la salud, pacientes y sociedad civil en general que consideraban un grave atropello a los derechos de las personas; situación que gracias al fallo de la Corte Constitucional dejó en claro que los reclamos eran justos y necesarios.