Health prepares a law to curb the privatization of hospitals

The Ministry of Health will approve a new law called the Law of Public Management and Integrity of the National Health System to curb and limit the privatization of public healthcare, especially by preventing management models like those found in hospitals of the Quirón or Ribera Salud group, where private companies manage public centers for profit, from being repeatedThis regulation would repeal the 1997 law that opened the door to concessions of public hospitals to private companies, and would establish that privatization will only be possible in exceptional cases, when there is no public alternative, sustainability, efficiency, and quality and accessibility standards are guaranteed, and always with prior technical reports evaluated by a committee of experts