translated from Spanish: Next week municipalities will receive funds to pay for Primary Care programs

The Undersecretary of Care Networks, Arturo Zúñiga, reported today that the budget decree of the Ministry of Health has already been amended to authorize the sending of resources that cost the Primary Care programs of the municipalities. Such funds will be transferred “next week at the latest”. “The mayors can already start hiring, some have already done so, the teams to be able to carry out the traceability and in the coming days, we are talking about the next week at the latest, the resources should already be transferred to the municipalities,” confirmed Undersecretary Zúñiga.This is confirmed after questions by some communal authorities in the Metropolitan Region —La Granja , La Pintana, San Joaquín and San Ramón— not to receive the money committed to the Medical College, on June 18, to nurture the different strategies of the sector. “We have already transferred more than 55 billion during the month of March. On Friday, yesterday, I informed the representatives of the associations of the municipalities of the country, the arrival of the resources that had been committed to continue, not only with the traceability strategy that is what we have announced,” Zúñiga said at the Palacio La Moneda.

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