Sick and workers of the Mario Correa Hospital cried for EPS debts for wages and services: ‘There are closed rooms with leaks’
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agosto 4, 2025
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Mario Correa Rengifo Hospital, as hundreds of hospitals and clinics throughout the Valle del Cauca, It is in ‘intensive care’. There are not enough resources for the payment
Mario Correa Rengifo Hospital, as hundreds of hospitals and clinics throughout the Valle del Cauca, It is in ‘intensive care’.
There are not enough resources for the payment of their workers’ salaries, as well as there are patients who report to enter for some intervention or treatment, observing roof leaks. Water filters to some of the areas.
Crowd outside the Mario Correa Rengifo Hospital of Cali. Photo:Juan Pablo Rueda / El Tiempo
«I have the obligation, as a deputy, to tell my government, Gustavo Petro, the minister, the Superintendent, to tell us the truth and to pay the workers. But you also have the obligation, that if we make the fight, you tell us what the resource is, the payrol From the hospital, Juan Carlos Corrales, this Agosto 4.
«I have well -dedicated images of the hospital. But I am still, because we also look for a solution, because there are some rooms that are closed,» said the assemblyman.
«They operated on the prostate and I realized, when they were going to operate, I realized some great jars full of water and that dripped water,» said one of the users of Mario Correa, in the middle of the street and a crowd that formed around the manager of this public hospital of the departmental spring and the deputy.
Crowd outside the Mario Correa Rengifo Hospital of Cali. Photo:Juan Pablo Rueda / El Tiempo
«I believe that if we join efforts, the solution is, but Mr. Minister has said: ‘We have the EPS soak.’ Words of him, I don’t know what he meant. But if Emssanar answers, they come and pay, this is solved,» said the Corrales manager.
«But how do we do? I have played doors. Now, if you tell me for your management, great. We hope the resource arrives,» said the official before the protest on the street, In front of the hospital facilities, at the top of the Los Chorros sector, in the steep commune 18, in the southwest of Cali.
Crowd outside the Mario Correa Rengifo Hospital of Cali. Photo:Juan Pablo Rueda / El Tiempo
«I am not interested here to go out in the news and nothing. I am interested in your hospital to remain open. I am interested in my classmates to have the salary and that people who get up at their appointments have the opportunity to access them. We cannot let this hospital end, Doctor,» the deputy Osorio rebuked.
Then, the politician addressed some of the public hospital workers. «Companions, do not be sad to charge your salary, because you do work, you have the right to pay you. But it is not that we wait a month, two months, it arrives Diciembre and the same. Surely in Diciembre the governor will come here with a giant check saying a suit for money and the other months what,» Osorio asked. «The same Comptroller General has stated that he has turned to the EPS. Where is the bandit?
«The only thing we are asking for, Doctor, is that the Departmental Assembly understands that the Mario Correa public hospital cannot end,» said the deputy.
There are three EPS who have not paid their debts for care at the Mario Correa of patients affiliated with these delinquent entities they have in trouble and on the verge of collapse to clinics and hospitals throughout the region. These health promoting entities are Emsanar, Asmet Salud and Coosalud, according to the deputy and Corrales manager. These three estates owe 14,500 million pesos to Mario Correa Rengifo. EMSSANAR has the largest debt: 9.5 billion pesos.
The Corrales manager said that from Asmet Salud’s debt, 2,650 million pesos are already reconciled to pay them no later than Viernes, Agosto 8 or next Lunes 11 of the same month.
The EPS owes about 3.5 billion clinics and public hospitals throughout the Cauca Valley.