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31/12/2025 FTS 04.30 In Paraguay, healthcare workers and opposition legislators denounce that the government of Santiago Peña and the conservative Colorado party are privatizing public health services.  teleSUR These and more stories now!  🌐Join teleSUR's community and be part of a space where your ideas matter.  https://chat.whatsapp.com/KLABTE41aSj3ioYabXQQ6K 🗣 Don't be left behind, join teleSUR's Channel https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va98Z437Noa2tjytCt1N Web💬 https://www.telesurenglish.net/ X🧶 https://twitter.com/telesurenglish Instagram 📸 https://www.instagram.com/telesurenglish/?hl=es Facebook 📱 https://www.facebook.com/teleSUREnglishOfficial Youtube ⏯ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmuTmpLY35O3csvhyA6vrkg Tiktok👌🏼 https://www.tiktok.com/@telesurenglish?_t=8hMLCY0a6z7&_r=1

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00:00We move on to Paraguay.

00:02Healthcare workers and opposition legislators denounced that the government of Santiago

00:06Peña and the conservative Colorado Party are privatizing public health services.

00:11Let's see more in the following report from our colleague Osvaldo Zayas.

00:18Legislators and workers' organizations have been denouncing asylum privatization of the

00:21public health system.

00:23For example, the Ministry of Health has awarded services worth $28 million to a private consortium

00:28called Canofta.

00:33President Santiago Peña, even during his campaign, said that Paraguay's health system should

00:37turn the Ministry of Health into a kind of central bank that manages funds and that all services

00:42should be privatized.

00:46In some way, he is now fulfilling what he said, but since there is public rejection of the privatization

00:51of the health system, he is doing it gradually.

00:54What he does is take certain services, certain areas of healthcare, and begins to outsource

00:58them.

00:59The National Doctors' Union claims that the privatization being carried out by the Colorado

01:08Party multiplies service costs five-fold.

01:10In 2025, the Diagnostic and Imaging Center outsourced services to the private company, Metrotech,

01:17for a value of $45 million.

01:19The little that is allocated to health is given to outsourcing and privatization, which ends

01:27up multiplying expenses five-fold.

01:31Instead of paying, for example, $600,000 guarantees for a medical study within a public institution,

01:36the cost is being doubled, tripled, or even quintupled when paying a private company.

01:42The Paraguayan Medical Circle also denounced that the privatization of services not only

01:51hands over public resources to private companies, but also constitutes a new source of corruption.

01:57It stated that the Ministry of Health has accumulated debts of more than $500 million.

02:02The money being spent is precisely what is missing to make healthcare services equitable and equal

02:09across all of Paraguay.

02:11Because it is not enough to build small, extraordinary hospitals at the expense of the entire service

02:16network, which lacks supplies, lacks medicines, lacks specialists, it lacks, it lacks.

02:22Both the Paraguayan Nursing Association and unions of the Social Security Institute,

02:31the country's main social security entity, systematically reject the deterioration of the healthcare

02:36system as well as the fact that the government is turning a basic right into a commodity.

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