Doctor Juan Pablo Ovalle Granados ended a 22-day strike this Friday of hunger and 48 hours chained by a fence, in protest against the Colombian government It is alleged that he did not validate the specialization diploma in thoracic surgery, which he studied in Spain, despite meeting all the requirements.
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“In this validation process there have been negligence, errors and bureaucracies that expose me to the need to go through a judicial process that would take more than three years. to be resolved and that is why I decided to make this protest, “said Ovalle, who chained himself to the parking fence of the Ministry of Education in
Colombia.
According to the 38-year-old Colombian, he graduated as a surgeon from the Columbia University of Education and Technology in Tunja, the capital of the Boyacá Department (center) in 2006.
He explained that after overcoming personal difficulties managed to complete a specialization in thoracic surgery at the University Hospital of A Coruña (Spain), in May 2019.
Ovalle, who remains seated in a small chair and has a sleeping bag and a thermal blanket very close to him, assured that he delivered all the necessary documentation to the Ministry of Education.
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Those who study the validation of the title do not read the information
Dr. Juan Pablo Ovalle, 38, on hunger strike.
What happened, he said, was that those studying the validation of the title “do not read the information” and added that the group that evaluated his case consisted of a dentist, a bacteriologist and a nutritionist and that, through therefore, you will continue your protest for as long as it takes to validate your title.
While the situation is resolved, Ovalle was visited by officials from the Bogotá health secretariat, including a doctor and a mental health specialist.
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Through these visits, at least seven since the beginning of the protest, they showed only that Ovalle is dehydrated and consuming serum, said for Efe one of the doctors from the health secretariat in Bogota.
In turn, the Ministry of Education said in a statement that it “gave all the guarantees (to Ovalle) according to the procedure”.
He recalled that the Government had launched a decongestion plan for the recognition of higher education diplomas obtained abroad.
Out of the total of 22,591 applications submitted by citizens with a limit until December 2020, the Ministry responded to 21,494 procedures (95%).
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Official title of thoracic surgery specialist.
EFE