SURVEY: Should we impose medical care on Bolivians? | Chronic

A year ago, the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales rejected the request for reciprocity with Argentina to provide medical coverage to immigrants.

On January 23, the young jujeño Manuel Vilca He was victim of a road accident in the aforementioned neighboring country and was hospitalized without medical care in a hospital in the city of Oruro and in a clinic in Cochabamba, unable to cover the costs of health. high costs of the operation he needed.

Thanks to the intervention of the government of Jujuy, who took charge of a five-day hospitalization in Oruro (121,312 Argentine pesos and 7,000 dollars of the said clinic), the provincial authorities made a new payment of two thousand dollars to repatriate Vilca They did not let him leave Bolivia until he did not pay all the expenses incurred.

After the events, the Governor of Jujuy, Gerardo Morales published the ballots detailing the costs paid, which include toilet paper and in the last hours he said: "Bolivia does not treat us well, we are the fools of the neighborhood" .

Finally, I badure you that you will meet the Chancellor Jorge Faurie evaluate a proposal for reciprocity in health care and ignore that it is a xenophobic proposition.