{"id":12705,"date":"2025-08-21T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12705\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:22:09","slug":"colombia-health-care-crisis-spirals-as-ers-maternity-wards-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12705\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia Health Care Crisis Spirals as ERs, Maternity Wards Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">President Gustavo Petro wanted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-12-05\/petro-s-standoff-with-health-insurers-in-colombia-puts-state-control-in-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">expand the state\u2019s role<\/a> in Colombia\u2019s health care. Instead, he\u2019s crushing a once-robust system that had been among the most effective in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">First maternity wards and neonatal units started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-05-08\/health-crisis-deepens-in-colombia-as-hospitals-shut-down-units\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">shutting down<\/a>.<strong>  <\/strong>Now emergency rooms are closing their doors. Patients are waiting longer for urgent care. And families are struggling to pay for medicines that used to be provided for free. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Gustavo Petro wanted to expand the state\u2019s role in Colombia\u2019s health care. Instead, he\u2019s crushing a once-robust&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[110,11989,6862,18,3428,135,475,474,11990,19,11995,17,11867,11993,11992,790,11994,11991,65],"class_list":{"0":"post-12705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-cancer","9":"tag-colombia","10":"tag-congress","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-health-care","15":"tag-healthcare","16":"tag-hospital-universitario-san-i","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-industries","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-july-sarl-caen","21":"tag-keralty","22":"tag-latin-america","23":"tag-politics","24":"tag-regulation","25":"tag-santiago","26":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}