No, the health system has not killed more people than the war: experts question the figure with which Petro defends his health reform. The president has used that figure to support the urgency for Congress to approve his health system reform.
Three academic experts in health systems and two former ministers of the sector agree that the figure reported by the INS is different, and that it does not have the meaning that the Presidency suggests. Andrés Vecino is a professor and researcher in the health systems program at Johns Hopkins University, in the United States.