the right to health has been constitutionalized specifically in Articles 44 and 49 of our actual Constitution as an inherent right of the individual. According to a main formalistic approach the interpretation of the right to health was considered as a merely assistance right because of its location in the topographic Constitution. From there, and by direct influence of the jurisprudential considerations of the Constitutional Court, was considered as a right of double connotation-fundamental and assistive-, then as a fundamental right by connexity, later as a fundamental right with relations to certain populations -older adult, people in a state of disability, population in travel status-, then as fundamental in relation to the contents of the Compulsory Health Plan, and finally, seems to have been recognized as a fundamental right per se. However the development of this iusfundamentality pointed out , voices on merely assistance character of the right to health or their importance in exclusive form still listen via connective with other fundamental rights .The right to health analyzed in the key of the Social State is a true fundamental right to be universal, inalienable, inherent to the human person, comprehensive and integrative, essential for the realization of a life with dignity and quality, and vital to the real effectiveness of the principie of material equality. Behaves freedoms and rights. Therefore, the fundamental right to health in Colombia must be a fundamental right seriously, protected by all the constitutional and statutory guarantees inherent in such type of rights.