The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has invited this Friday the whole country to come on February 14 to the main squares of their cities to attend an event in which he will explain and defend the government’s upcoming proposals and reforms, including health care.
«Join me this February 14. May health be for all the Colombian people, may health be for Colombia,» Petro wrote on Twitter, where he also shared a video stressing that «health is a right, not a business» and that «reforming it is everyone’s business.»
«Health reform will bring doctors to every home in the Colombian territory to prevent disease or cure it before it is too late. Your home and the farmer’s home will receive routine visits from the family health team for their care,» Petro later wrote in another message on the social network.
Thus, President Petro has announced that from Bolivar Square in Bogota he will speak for all of Colombia, which he hopes will gather «in all public squares» of the country’s cities. «Change and its reforms have arrived», he emphasized.
Days before Petro had already been asking the population to mobilize to seek the debate for the reforms -health, education, labor, pensions- that the Government plans to carry out, appealing to the «great social dialogue» to change the country.
However, some sectors have questioned the suitability of this mobilization for fear of confrontations between the «extreme sectors of the left and the right» due to the «lack of knowledge» there may be of these reforms.
This is the case of the president of the Senate, Roy Barreras, who, although he welcomes Petro’s intention «to listen to the voices of those who have never been heard», these claims, he has defended, have to be «channeled» through Congress.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
