Constitución en Inglés

37 Corte Constitucional de Colombia into existence before July 31, 2011, who obtain fourteen (14) monthly pension payments per year are excepted from the provisions of Section 8 of the present article. Public health and environmental sanitation are public services for which the State is responsible. All individuals are guaranteed access to services that promote, protect, and restore health. It is the responsibility of the State to organize, direct, and regulate the provision of health services to the inhabitants and sanitation in accordance with the principles of efficiency, universality, and solidarity. The State additionally has a responsibility to establish policies for the provision of health services by private entities and to exercise oversight and control over them; the State has a responsibility to establish the competences of the nation, territorial entities, and private citizens, and to determine the subsidies to their tasks in the terms and conditions established by law. Health services shall be organized in a decentralized manner, by care levels, and with the participation of the community. The law shall define the terms under which basic care for all inhabitants shall be free of charge and mandatory. Every individual has the right to have access to comprehensive care of his/her health and that of his/her community. The possession and the consumption of narcotic and psychoactive drugs are prohibited, except by medical prescription. For the sake of prevention and rehabilitation, the law shall establish administrative measures and pedagogic, prophylactic, and therapeutic treatments for persons consuming ARTICLE 49