- It is estimated that there are around 80 thousand health workers who are not regularized.
- Some have worked for decades without receiving benefits and fail to gain seniority.
- The current maximum promise is that by 2024 they will all be basified.
One of the highest demands of the health union is to have sufficient guarantees to carry out its work. In all cases, they put their integrity at risk and the least they expect is to receive dignified treatment. For this reason, for years it has been requested the basification of medical personnel.
Support for all health workers
Some previous estimates indicate that they are At least 80,000 health workers are yet to be regularized. Some have even worked for decades in the form of fees or temporary contracts. For the same reason, they do not receive benefits or manage to generate seniority.
For his part, one of the first promises made by Andrés Manuel López Obrador when he became president of Mexico was that would regularize all health workers. Unfortunately, in 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic began and all plans were frozen.
Although now, when the health emergency seems under control, the basification of medical personnel. With this in mind, the first steps to regularize the elements have already been taken.
I work with all the benefits established by law
The first 300 health workers in Tlaxcala, including medical and nursing staff in the program IMSS-WELFARE, they received their labor base. This action is part of the commitments of the federal government in the process of transforming the health system in the country.
During an act held at the Tlaxcala Convention Center, which was attended by Governor Lorena Cuéllar Cisneros, and the General Director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, 10 places were symbolically given to personnel health of the entity.
Zoé Robledo pointed out that a commitment is being fulfilled with this union to provide job stability, and guarantee the right to health to the population without social security and added: “today is a historic day, because achieving this has been the product of many Workdays”.
On the other hand, the president has mentioned on previous occasions that one of his commitments is to guarantee the basification of all medical personnel of the country before the end of his six-year term. Now what remains is to wait to see if he can really fulfill it.