- The set date for each to begin providing care to patients is March 2024.
- The Regional Hospitals of Jalisco and Coahuila, as well as the ISSSTE Chiapas Hospital Clinic that are under construction already know their new directors.
- For each of the HRs, 3,028 million pesos of own resources were allocated.
One of the many problems facing the Mexican health system is the lack of resources. For years investment was stopped and the most affected are always the citizens. With this in mind, the Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) announced the progress in the construction of three hospitals and also appointed their respective directors.
In this case, it is the heads of the new Regional Hospitals (HR) of Jalisco and Coahuila and the Hospital Clinic (CH) of Chiapas. Each of the projects is progressing according to plan and it is expected that they will be inaugurated as soon as possible.
In this regard, another of the serious drawbacks that have prevailed for decades is that not all the works that begin reach their correct conclusion on time and form. Sometimes they take longer than planned. In addition, they are not always completely equipped before their inauguration.
To prevent something similar from happening, tours of the hospital works are made on a permanent basis to find out the progress of each one. Based on forecasts, it is expected that all of them will be completed and equipped by March 2024.
The designated directors of the new ISSSTE hospitals under construction
After a thorough analysis, the director of ISSSTE, Pedro Zenteno, appointed the doctors who will be responsible for each hospital. For the High Specialty HR of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, a Alan Ulises Solano Magana. For the HR of Torreón, Coahuila, to Margarita Martinez Moreno. And finally for the HPP of Palenque, Chiapas, to Jesus Gomez Prott.
He urged them to immediately contact the medical area and the instances involved, with the aim of resolving the procedures that must be carried out and authorized, streamlining processes in the works, in addition to being in charge of forming the required personnel templates, according to their category and level of care.
Characteristics of each hospital
Three thousand 28 million pesos of own resources were allocated for each of the HRs. They will provide care in 36 medical specialties, will have 250 census beds per hospital and together will benefit 3.7 million beneficiaries. Its operation is projected to 100 percent in March 2024.
The CH of Palenque will be made up of 20 offices and will have 20 censusable beds; it covers eight thousand 706 m2 of construction, for which 530 million pesos were allocated. It will provide services to 40,000 beneficiaries of family medicine, stomatology, preventive medicine, telemedicine, hemodynamics, surgery and imaging. It will be equipped with ultrasound, mastograph and tomograph.
The appointments were delivered during the weekly evaluation meeting on the progress of the HR of Jalisco and Coahuila, the HG of Tampico, Tamaulipas, and the CH of Chiapas and Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, where the general director reiterated that there is no excuse for not completing them on time and in the proper way, since the resources are earmarked and labeled.
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