- In order to open a medical care space, it is necessary to comply with an extensive list of requirements and request the Notice of Operation and Health Responsible permission for your medical office.
- According to Cofepris, there are 45,794 registered medical offices throughout the country.
- The National Interdisciplinary Union of Pharmacies, Clinics and Offices (Unifacc) denounced that most pharmacy offices operate illegally.
Patient care in Mexico is in the midst of a strong discussion. Everything was generated from the recent declaration of the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, against the pharmacy offices. He directly expressed his contempt for this care model for putting patients and doctors themselves at risk.
Similarly, the official pointed out that these cheaply priced spaces offer depressing working conditions. His argument is that most networks only offer temporary contracts to doctors. While many do not even grant Social Security or other types of bonuses to their staff.
Pharmacy clinics increasingly serve more patients
For their part, a large number of health professionals have published comments on the subject. The general consensus is that pharmacy offices are not the best option, but it is an alternative to which millions of Mexicans go.
Although at the beginning the biggest incentive was the economic part, now everything is different. More and more beneficiaries of IMSS and ISSSTE prefer the offices adjacent to pharmacies. The reason is because they are the closest option due to the multiplication of this type of establishment.
It also influences that the service is immediate. It is not necessary to come from the morning to request a card and spend hours in the waiting room. In fact, the failings of public health have become the strengths of this minimum payment method.
Spaces that operate illegally?
In the midst of this panorama, now Oscar Zavala Martinezwho is president of the National Interdisciplinary Union of Pharmacies, Clinics and Clinics (Unifacc), launched an accusation.
He stated that there are at least 32,000 pharmacy offices that do not have the necessary permission from the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris). Therefore, these are places that operate illegally and affect the entire union.
Now, according to the weekly Process In 2021, 8,220 new clinics were opened in the country. While Cofepris currently has a record of 45 thousand 794 spaces throughout the country.
In this sense, to open a space for medical attention it is necessary to comply with an extensive list of requirements. One of the main ones is to get the Notice of Operation and Health Responsible for your medical office. For the first, you must have the Single Registry of Accredited Persons (RUPA). It is a password granted by the Ministry of Public Administration so that you can carry out other procedures in all the dependencies of the Federal Public Administration.
Once completed, you need to fill out the document Notice of operation of the establishment of Cofepris products and services. The document can be obtained at the following link.
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