translated from Spanish: President Piñera presented the new Compin office in Santiago

President Sebastián Piñera, together with the Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, and the Undersecretary of Health, Paula Daza, presented on Wednesday the new branch of the Commission on Preventive Medicine and Invalidity (Compin) of Santiago. The new offices are located in Huerfanos 699, corner Mac Iver, and replaces the old premises of Calle Moneda. The building of more than 2 thousand square meters, has greater attention span and additional services, such as the arrangement of a children’s room, in the waiting rooms of attention to the public. President Piñera stated that “these facilities aim at the comprehensive modernization of Compin, by the health authorities, to manage the procedures with love, dignity and speed.” He added that “the Compin Moneda was intervened where more than 27,000 medical licenses were resolved and this modernization is intended to ensure that licenses are paid on time.” For his part, Minister Mañalich noted that “we have implemented, at the national level, a very sophisticated system for resolving medical licensing procedures and also adequate training to perform friendly and dignified care”. The Minsal intervened those offices that had delays in the authorizations of medical licenses, as in the case of Santiago, Iquique, Antofagasta, Talca and Concepción. Undersecretary Daza explained in Santiago’s case “100% of the outstanding medical licenses were resolved.” 75% were authorized to pay the subsidy, 16% were medically authorized, but without the right to receive payment for lack of history to complete the process, and 9% were rejected.

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