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Vice President Borrero says, “the health structure is eaten away by corruption”

Published on August 30, 2021

Vice President Alfredo Borrero leads the vaccination against Covid-19 and the revamping of the public health system and says that the problems of the country’s hospitals have a common element: corruption.

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