Alejandro Gaviria Uribe, Colombia’s minister of health and social protection, discusses the implementation of the Statutory Health Law, bridging the gap between healthcare coverage and access to healthcare, and the strategic priorities of the Ministry moving forward.
In our 2013 interview, your overarching sentiment was that the healthcare landscape was in a paradoxical time: indeed, as much as the sector was tired of reforms, it was demanding reforms at the same time. Your hope was for the then-upcoming reforms to be known as THE Reform – do you believe that the Statutory Health Law achieved his notoriety?
"Legal reforms are done with, implementation is now the name of the game."
