ESSAY: THE STATE ABANDONMENT OF HEALTH AFTER THE INDEPENDENCE OF EL SALVADOR

BRIEF COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK: “THE SALVADORAN ECONOMY AFTER INDEPENDENCE. WHY ARE WE THE WAY WE ARE” BY WILLIAM PLEITES

Abstract

In the exhaustive analysis of the data and words of the economic book of “Pleites”, it is evidenced an abandonment of health by the Salvadoran State in its last two hundred years, from three aspects: conceptual, economic and scientific-technological. The first is demonstrated, in its poor conception of health as a public charity and materialized in its pyrrhic spending in the area of health care, education, housing, work and food; the second referring to the scarce government budget allocations both in treating the disease with doctors, health infrastructure and medicines, and associated with poor investment in health, associated with educational, housing, labor, agriculture-food security aspects; finally, the absence of records of figures for investment in technology and science for health, null details on investments in modern hospital infrastructure and no conspicuous government participation in the introduction of contemporary medical scientific advances