During the last year and a half, the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) has been fundamental to combat the pandemic. As a result it has achieved recovery of more than two million patients. But while there have already been three peaks throughout the health crisis, it seems that infections and hospitalizations in the country have begun to decrease. Therefore, the decision has now been made to send specialists to the Caribbean to assist in the care of Covid-19 cases.
In that sense, the team is made up of five high-level specialists of the IMSS in the management, care and treatment of patients hospitalized for Covid-19. The group traveled to Granada last weekend to support efforts to mitigate the increase in the number of cases and hospitalizations for this disease in that country.
Who are the chosen specialists?
In this regard, Dr. Célida Duque Molina, director of Medical Benefits, reported that the high-level team of Social Security is made up of doctors Rodolfo Sosa Barragán, Francisco Javier Orta Guerrero, Luis Vicente Gómez Guerrero, and nurses Miriam Esther Uribe Aguilar and José Luis Medina Espinosa.
Duque Molina stressed that these health professionals have the mission of “replicating” in Granada “good practices for the management of patients with hospital care due to Covid-19 disease.”
He stressed that the five people commissioned for this humanitarian work decided to go voluntarily and are fluent in the English language.
International support offered by Mexico
He explained that the request for support derives from a request that the Representation of the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO / WHO) in Barbados received from the Minister of Health of Granada, Mr. Nicolas Steele, to give Urgently, medical personnel from the Institute support the fight against COVID-19 in the Caribbean country.
Dr. Célida Duque Molina commented that based on the above, the general director of the IMSS, Zoé Robledo, expressed his unconditional support for the request sent by the PAHO / WHO Representative in Mexico, Mr. Cristián Morales, where he requested that a group of Social Security experts in critical medicine participate in the operation and training of teams for the care of COVID-19.
The five specialists of the Institute left this Sunday, October 19, from the International Airport of Mexico City, made a stopover in New York and from there they headed to Granada. While they are scheduled to return to our country on Monday, October 4.