- The IMSS uses the Mexican Postal System to send around 45,000 documents on medical issues and care for the beneficiary population.
- The IMSS story will now be told through a commemorative postage stamp.
- In total, 200,000 stamps were printed and each one has a cost of 15 pesos.
The Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) and the Mexican Postal Service (Sepomex) teamed up to present a commemorative postage stamp. With this, both institutions endorsed their relationship that allows the sending of some 45,000 procedures and documents on medical issues and attention to the beneficiary population. This institutional link was strengthened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The IMSS now has its own postage stamp
During the cancellation of the representative postage stamp at 80 years of the IMSS, the general director, Zoé Robledo, thanked the director of the Postal Service, Rocío Bárcena Molina, for her accompaniment and optimism during the COVID-19 pandemic, which permeated to the health sector. She stressed that the story will continue to be told on postage stamps. The simultaneous cancellation was also carried out in the 35 Representations of the Institute in the states.
“I am sure that this is how this story will continue to be told in the envelopes where the postage stamps are stamped, the new story will also be told, the story of the institution that emerged strengthened from a pandemic.”
He recalled that the documentary “Letters at a Distance”by director Juan Carlos Rulfo, portrayed life in a Social Security hospital during the pandemic and the close relationship that nurses, doctors, and all the staff established at that time with the relatives who were outside waiting for news of his patients.
“At that time they established a small postal service for letters that relatives sent to patients and read them to them. I am sure that it was one of the best therapies, because a dose of hope always strengthens the soul and the immune system, and that also showed that the relationship between the IMSS and the Post Office was a long-standing one, and it also had a long future.”
Zoé Robledo said that there is still a lot of IMSS in the future of Mexico and there will be IMSS-Well-being in the hope of many who have not had the opportunity to speak with a doctor and receive care.
In her speech, the general director of the Mexican Postal Service, Rocío Bárcena Molina, highlighted that it is an honor for Correos de México to participate in the celebration for the IMSS 80th anniversary and the best way to honor those years of ensuring the social security of workers, workers and their families, is with the issuance of a postage stamp.
“An image says more than a thousand words”
He said that postage stamps allow the country’s history to be recorded through an image, and contribute to important events and moments transcending time, because an image says more than a thousand words.
“The passage of time and the transformation of society have left this important task of communication to postal employees, especially our portfolios, postmen, messengers and messengers, who travel throughout the national territory every day to deliver mail, messaging and parcel services, covering the entire republic, this coverage is something in which we agree with the services of health workers and the IMSS team, which provide primary health care throughout the national territory, to guarantee the well-being of the population”.
Bárcena Molina indicated that, just as it is a satisfaction for the IMSS to have people committed to preserving the right to health protection, for the more than 12,500 Sepomex employees it is proud to know that their work contributes to guaranteeing the right to the communication of the Mexican population.
The commemorative postage stamps of the 80th anniversary of the IMSS will be on sale starting this May 31 at the offices of the Mexican Postal Service at a cost of 15 pesos. A limited edition print run of 200,000 stamps was made nationwide.
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