translated from Spanish: Measures which includes the National Cancer Plan

the President Sebastián Piñera, along with the Minister of health, Emilio Santelices, presented the new National Cancer Plan and signed the draft law of the cancer. “We are fulfilling the commitment, not only to introduce the National Cancer Plan, that gives us a vision of long look, that will allow us to confront this without improvisations and permanently, they also present the law to Cancer We just signed as project, together with the doctor Santelices,”he said.” Through this Bill, the State is committed body and soul with cancer patients and their families. It will make a huge effort, because it means a very large, not only human effort which is the most important thing, and we saw it for the training of medical specialists, but also organization, logistics, resources, and which covers all fields I just mentioned”, stressed. The President explained that the plan provides for increasing the number of oncologists and a modification to the entry of foreign specialists. The Ministry of health “will will substantially increase the training capacity of medical oncologists specialists in this field. In addition, a new mechanism of recognition of titles, joins because in addition to the increase in the training of medical specialists in our country, we can also receive the help of physicians who have been trained in other countries and requiring the approval of their titles”, explained. You will also create six Centre of high complexity: in the North, Central, Metropolitan Region, the South-Central area and two for the South zone. The initiative also considers the creation of a National Cancer Registry, which will contain “information of all patients, in order to develop better public policies and in addition make better decisions to deal with the situation that is not the” same throughout the country”, said the President.

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