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IMSS-Wellbeing It has 80 hospitals throughout the Mexican Republic.
The program is active in 19 states of the Mexican territory.
4 million indigenous people are enrolled in the IMSS-Wellness program
What is the IMSS-Wellness about?
IMSS- Well-being is the program responsible for providing health services to the sector of the population that does not have attributive capacity. The program exists thanks to a reform carried out in 1973 to provide service to people who have no income, suffer from extreme poverty or are deeply marginalized.
A bit of program history…
In 1979 they signed an agreement with the General Coordination of the National Plan for Depressed Areas and Marginalized Groups, COPLAMAR. The IMSS-COPLAMAR program is born to extend the program to the entire Mexican Republic.
The program continued to change names throughout its history, in 1989 it was IMSS-SOLIDARIDAD, 2002 IMSS-OPORTUNIDADES, 2014 IMSS-PROSPERA and finally it exists today under the name of IMSS-BIENESTAR.
IMSS-Well-being today
On April 1, 2022, they announced that the state of Nayarit would join the IMSS-Wellness program. During the morning conference on July 26 of the same year and in a release published later the same day, The Director General of the IMSS, Zoé Robledo, reported that the medical units in the states of Nayarit, Tlaxcala and Colima are already 100% operational.
Zoé Robledo commented that in the state of Nayarit has 12 Hospitals, 3 Medical Specialty Units and 245 Health Centers. In that state, 4,615 surgeries have been performed, 358 Family Medicine Consultations; 38 thousand 817 Specialty Consultations and 35 thousand 600 detections of Hypertension and Diabetes.
From Tlaxcala, he highlighted the presence of the program in the state with 11 Hospitals, 1 Medical Specialties Unit and 195 Health Units. He also commented that 66 million pesos were invested in infrastructure, with an advance of 92 percent.
In Colima, he said that it operates in the 5 hospitals of the entity, 1 Medical Specialty Unit and 131 Health Units. In the same way, he highlighted that 50 million pesos have been invested, with 99 percent of that expense executed.
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