- According to AMLO, the new health system will work “optimally” from the first quarter of next year.
- The first stage, which only includes 15 entities, will reach the goal this year.
- In the first stage of the application of the Health Plan for well-being, the operation of 347 hospitals is proposed.
The new health systemwhich includes the federalization of services as well as providing social security for all Mexicans, will work “optimally” from first quarter of next yearforesees AMLO.
This will apply to all states that adhere to the plan, meanwhile, in the first stage that only includes 15 entitiesthe goal will be reached this year, in “4 or 5 more months”.
We are going to be able to say, all the doctors are there, patients are treated on all shifts, medicines are not lacking, already at 100, that is the challenge, that is the challenge”, commented the president.
The administration will achieve this goal in the new health system thanks to the resources that have been protected from corruption, assured AMLO.
“That is the purpose and we are going to achieve it, as there is no corruption, as I have said for a long time, if we put an end to corruption, with the same budget we would be able to guarantee medical health and medicines for the entire population because a lot was stolen, it was looting without limits”, he commented.
Since last week, the government had announced that the “morning” Health Pulse section would no longer report on the COVID-19 situation in Mexico due to the sustained drop in cases and the Transition from an epidemic state to an endemic statethat is, the disease is under control at the moment.
That is why, once the April vaccination operationbegan with the report on progress in improving the health system by state, Nayarit being the first where the new measures are applied.
THE FEDERALIZATION OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM
In the first stage of the application of the Wellness health planthe operation of 347 hospitalsthe creation of 7 thousand 33 first level units and the increase in medical personnel to 46 thousand 46 people.
The Chief Executive stated that he will continue the rehabilitation and equipping health centers and hospitals. In parallel, there will be enough staff from Health seven days a week, as well as supply of medicines.
“When it was decided to buy the vaccines, around 45 billion pesos were used just for vaccines. So I calculate, in very general terms, that it will mean an investment of around 200 billion pesos for us to leave the health system as we are imagining it, ”he said.
The national president indicated that it is possible to resume these actions to strengthen the public system because the COVID-19 epidemic has already been on a downward trend for seven weeks.
The same team that worked to confront the pandemiccomposed of the Health Secretary, the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of National Defense. He will participate in the strategy. Through the IMSS Wellbeing model, the job to staff and there will be no cuts, President López Obrador said.
“No one is going to be fired. Those who were hired and helped us in the difficult circumstances of COVID-19 have their work guaranteed and also know that those who were under contract will be basified. It’s a compromise; Nearly 100,000 workers are going to be basified, it is something that we are going to comply with. (…) They are not going to lose their seniority, their benefits, there is not going to be a decrease in salary, on the contrary, they are going to improve,” he remarked.
Unlike the previous six-year terms, it will reach the same labeled budget of the health sector
He stated that, unlike the previous six-year termswill reach the same labeled budget of the Health sector to offer free medical attention, studies and medicines.
“If we put an end to corruption, we finish banishing corruption in the health sector, with the same budget we are enough to improve the health infrastructure. As well as having well-equipped health centers; (…) We are looking for a way to ensure that doctors are not lacking and we are going to have all the medicines”, he emphasized.
From dialogue with the governors of the country, the majority have accepted the federalization of the health sector, he specified.
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