"There was no discrimination" | The government …

The Bolivian government has refuted the accusation of the governor of Juárez, Gerardo Morales, who, after the accident of an Argentinian in Oruro and his care in a hospital of that city, sent an open letter to President Evo Morales to denounce the "discrimination" and election campaign-has returned to the charge with his plan to impose foreign health care in hospitals in the province. "There has been no discrimination of any kind because of their nationality," said Bolivia's new health minister, Gabriela Montaño, in a public letter to the radical leader. The official stated that the injured musician was traveling on public transit and that it was the driver who bore the costs of hospitalization and surgery at the general hospital. 39; Oruro. He stressed that his country accorded "above all the health and life of people" and felt "very bad taste" that the jailer of Milagro Sala "mix political issues and political differences that probably have with President Evo Morales , with our policies of nationalization and recovery of sovereignty. "

Manuel Vilca crashed on December 8, spent five days at the Oruro hospital, where he had his right foot operated, and continued to convalesce in a clinic in Cochabamba. an injury in the lumbar region and "it was decided to repatriate" with the plane of health of the province, informed the Secretary of Health of the Minister of Health, Pablo Jure. Morales went to the airport Wednesday, where he said that Vilca "was not treated in the same way that we serve the Bolivian brothers". He then sent an open letter to Evo Morales to denounce "the ill-treatment and lack of minimal reciprocity" and summoned the Provincial Legislative Assembly to a special meeting to consider a draft law to bring foreigners together for the first time. health care services.

"Manuel had the opportunity to receive the same benefits as those enjoyed by Bolivians and Bolivians, as well as all foreigners and foreigners who were on Bolivian territory," so that "there was no discrimination of any kind because of their nationality, "explained Minister Montaño in his letter to the Radical Governor. He recalled that Evo Morales had received in 2006 "a deteriorated and neglected health system thanks to neoliberal and unpopular policies" and that, thanks to his policy of recovery of natural resources and economic growth, they were years later "in the first phase of Sistema Único de Salud", which aims to "consolidate the quality and warmth of universal and free health care, in which foreigners in our country are of course taken into account for the cover ".

"It seems to us absolutely contradictory that, just as Bolivia is moving forward in these very important stages, ruthless criticism of the health system is spreading in this way," he explained later, citing the provocation of the governor. . After repeating that Bolivia accorded "above all the health and life of people", he said "in very bad taste" that the leader of Cambiemos mixes his differences with the Bolivian president "to such delicate questions". The official also said that the injured musician did not even pay the peso for the medical treatment he received at the Oruro hospital because he was transported by public transport and was therefore obliged to take out accident insurance. . "In the case of this vehicle that did not report to the accident of the insurance, so it is the owner of the vehicle that had to cover all the cats," he said. -he declares.