LatinNews Daily - 09 September 2025

*The major Colombian health insurer Sanitas, owned by the multinational Keralty Group, has returned to private management following an intervention by the health regulator (Supersalud) in April 2024. The end to the government intervention owes to a 26 June ruling by the constitutional court, which reportedly found that there were procedural irregularities in the government takeover. Keralty, which claims that the intervention was a purely political move aimed at increasing State control over the healthcare sector as part of the health reform pursued by President Gustavo Petro, yesterday accused the government of pushing the company to the brink. In a statement circulated in the media, Keralty said that “we’re beginning the arduous task of rebuilding, but we must be frank: the damage caused by the illegal intervention and the government’s irresponsible actions is devastating”. It said that the intervention was “illegal, arbitrary, and profoundly unfair,” and was “the result of institutional persecution” which resulted in “abandoned patients, shortages of medicines, and collapsed care networks”. The president of Sanitas, Juan Pablo Rueda, yesterday told local radio station Blu Radio that “they’ve handed back to us a company with an unprecedented financial deterioration… and a deteriorated service,” adding that patient complaints increased by over 40% during the intervention.

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