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De La Espriella bars EPS overseers from any contact with Mario Urán

President Abelardo De La Espriella forbade all EPS overseers from meeting or maintaining any dialogue with Mario Urán, an external adviser denounced for…

--- The context --- The intervened EPS entities manage resources meant to care for patients, guarantee their treatments and supply their medicines on time. Over that management fell a presidential warning to protect that public money. --- The facts --- President Abelardo De La Espriella warned all overseers of the EPS entities that he had forbidden them to meet, hold encounters or maintain any dialogue with Mario Urán, an external adviser on health matters denounced for alleged acts of corruption during the previous government. Whoever disobeys, he assured, will be removed immediately. The president held that health resources are sacred, that they exist for patients, their treatments and their medicines, and not to enrich unscrupulous intermediaries. According to what has been pointed out, Mario Urán was accused by former Health Superintendent Luis Carlos Leal of heading a corruption network that steered contracts of intervened EPS entities, from his role as an adviser at the EPS Coosalud. --- The positions --- The government's position is single: no overseer may keep any contact with the accused adviser, and disobedience is paid with immediate removal. The source records no response from him. --- What remains unknown --- It is not known whether the ban was formalized in writing for each overseer or how compliance will be verified in each intervened EPS entity. --- Unanswered questions --- Was the ban communicated in writing to all overseers? How will the government verify that no overseer maintains dialogue with Mario Urán? What will happen to contracts of the intervened EPS entities that had any link with the adviser accused by former Superintendent Luis Carlos Leal? --- EPM analysis --- The decision focuses on the final destination of every health peso: the patient. By cutting off dialogue with an adviser denounced for alleged acts of corruption, no treatment will depend on questioned intermediaries. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the ban ordered by President Abelardo De La Espriella defends what is essential in the system: that health resources reach patients, guarantee their treatments and secure their medicines on time. Removing immediately whoever disobeys protects users of the intervened EPS entities and draws a clear line against any intermediary accused of alleged acts of corruption in handling that public money.
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