SuSalud launches a platform that shows the shifts and schedules of medical staff

To protect the health rights of the population and advance the national digital transformation policy, the National Health Authority (SuSalud) launched National Change Assistance Platform: To your health.

With this digital tool, people will be able to access, both in public institutions and in private clinics, the schedule of medical staff.

Thus, patients will know the day, time and place where the doctor will see them. They will also be able to check medical worker has a specialty and if authorized by him professional association.

Information disclosure

Juan Carlos Velasco Guerreronational superintendent of health, noted during an interview for News extension RPP Noticias that this platform was “born as part of the protection of citizens’ rights” and as a “report of the Accounts Chamber”

“There are medical workers who come in at 7:00, check in, leave and come back at 14:00 to leave. This is a violation of rights. ” He said.

“If we are honest with the information, it will reduce corruption and there will be real gaps in medical workers, and thus State He is going to carry out public policy to see how we train more specialists in accordance with the needs of the country,” he added.

It should be noted that in order to implement the platform To your health, National Health Administration established a duty for all public and private health care providers to provide details of the schedule for their change of care.