The Attorney General’s Office issued a statement of charges to the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo Martínez, as well as to the members of the Board of Directors of the National Fund for Social Benefits of Teachers (Fomag) at the time of the events, and two other people, for the alleged failures presented in the implementation of the new health model for the country’s teachers.

The members of the Fomag Board of Directors who were charged are the former Ministers of Finance and Public Credit, Ricardo Bonilla González; of National Education, Aurora Vergara Figueroa, and of Labor, Gloria Inés Ramírez Ríos, as well as the representatives of the Colombian Federation of Education Workers (Fecode), Georgina del Carmen Arroyo Gutiérrez and Christian Rey Camacho.

Charges were also brought against the former vice president (e) of Fomag, Magda Lorena Giraldo Parra, and the former president of La Fiduprevisora, John Mauricio Marín Barbosa.

Apparently, those investigated had ordered the entry into operation of the new health model for teachers as of May 1, 2024, without the necessary conditions being in place to guarantee the continuous and efficient provision of the service, which could violate the principles of efficiency and economy of the public service.

For the control body, his apparent conduct would have put “at risk the fundamental right to health of those affiliated with this exceptional regime, as a consequence of the lack of planning and improvisation in the materialization of the guidelines for hiring in the new scheme.”

In the case of Minister Jaramillo Martínez, the Attorney General’s Office points him out for apparently not having adequately fulfilled his function of directing and coordinating technical assistance to the Board of Directors of Fomag and Fiduprevisora ​​in the process of implementing this new system.

Due to these events, the Attorney General’s Office described the alleged conduct of the Minister of Health, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo Martínez, as well as the former president of La Fiduprevisora, John Mauricio Marín Barbosa, and the former vice president (e) of Fomag, Magda Lorena Giraldo Parra, as a serious offense committed with serious negligence.

In the case of the members of the Board of Directors of Fomag at the time of the events, the control body classified their apparent misconduct as very serious committed as a result of very serious fault.

In the same order, the filing and termination of the disciplinary action in favor of the former National Superintendent of Health, Luis Carlos Leal Angarita, was ordered, since no merit was found to consider that he incurred a breach of his functional duties before and during the operation of the new health model for teachers.