Garantías judiciales de la infancia en la prestación defectuosa de los servicios médicos

The right to health corresponds to a guarantee recently enshrined in Colombian law, in the Political Constitution of 1991, which expressly accredited it as a second generation right or belonging to so* El presente artículo es producto del proyecto de investigación “Garantías judiciales para la protección de los niños, niñas y adolescentes en casos de responsabilidad del Estado colombiano por fallas del servicio médicopediátrico en el periodo 2012-2019”, gestionado en el marco de la Maestría en Derecho Administrativo de la Universidad Libre, Bogotá, Colombia. Citar como: Tique Legro, D. C. y Barón Moreno, C. L. (2020). Garantías judiciales de la infancia en la prestación defectuosa de los servicios médicos. Revista IUSTA, 53, xx-xx. DOI: 0000 Abogada, Especialista en Derecho Constitucional y Derecho Administrativo, Probatorio y Derecho Penal de la Universidad Católica de Colombia. Estudiante de la Maestría en Derecho Administrativo de la Universidad Libre, seccional Bogotá. Correo electrónico: dicotile@hotmail.com ORCID: 0000-0002-9022-4651. Abogada de la Universidad la Gran Colombia, Especialista en Derecho Público de la Universidad la Republicana. Estudiante de la Maestría en Derecho Administrativo de la Universidad Libre, Seccional Bogotá. Correo electrónico: nanis772003@hotmail.com. ORCID: 0000-0001-5851-6825. called social, economic, and cultural rights. In the case of children, it was established in article 44 of the Magna Carta that this would be a fundamental right, giving full precedence and preference to the provision of this type of services. However, the shortcomings in the provision of health services in Colombia, despite the many reforms, had to be filled by the administrators of justice; judges and magistrates from all over the country are the ones who must enforce the guardianship, as a constitutional mechanism, of direct protection for the guaranteeing of this right, and also of reparation for the damages caused through the processes of direct reparation for failures in the medical service. With regard to the latter aspect, a diagnosis is made of the judicial guarantees that children have to gain access to courts of law in order to seek compensation for damages as a result of malpractice. This article addresses the problems existing in Colombia regarding failures in the medical-pediatric service based on the analysis of the jurisprudence of the Council of State and its evolution in recent years; however, this is done with reference to whether it is accompanied by international instruments that promote the protection of children in all their orders and their effective access, not only to health services, but also to guarantees in court.