📋 Tender Overview
Throughout the month of April 2024, the National Secretariat for Care and Disability of the Ministry of Social Development will organize, support and participate in activities, with the aim of generating and promoting actions that aim to guarantee the sustainability of the National Integrated Care System. .
The launch event, which took place in the Executive Tower of the Presidency on Monday, April 1, featured an opening table made up of the Director of Care; the coordinator of the drafting team of the bill that creates the Common Pension System, Rodolfo Saldain; and the head of Operations of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Uruguay, Fernando Cuenin.
On the occasion, Krall recalled that from the beginning of the administration they worked on strong slogans such as: “the humanization of care , putting people at the center; we talk about co-responsibility ; We work hard on the territorial deployment of all the Care System programs at the national level” to cover all corners of the country. Since this year the Month of Care will be focused on the sustainability of the system, we will work with the support of the IDB to carry out a financial sustainability study.
As major management milestones, the MIDES Care Director highlighted the implementation of the new management model for the collective provision of the Personal Assistant Program and the creation of the Autonomy Facilitator for educational centers, a figure of accompaniment and support to the dependence of boys and girls within educational centers.
Finally, Krall emphasized that "the country must see care as an investment and not as an expense" since it is then reflected in all the programs and rights that must be guaranteed.
