- ISSSTE plans to hire more medical personnel to offer service on weekends.
- The director broke the news during his tour of medical units in Huamantla, Apizaco and Calpulalpan, in Tlaxcala.
- He also called on the population to apply the complete vaccination scheme against COVID-19.
To exponentially expand and double the resolution capacity of outpatient consultation, the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers (Issste) will shortly implement the service in the evening shift and on weekends in clinics that require it. The purpose is to improve the first level of care and, consequently, strengthen disease prevention, said the general director, Pedro Zenteno Santaella.
Extend medical service
During his work tour through various municipalities of Tlaxcala – where he reaches 73 supervisions by medical units in different entities – the head of the Issste highlighted that both infrastructure and care are exceeded compared to the number of beneficiaries. Therefore, it is essential open new service shifts.
“We are reviewing the staff, the 100 percent supply of medicines, the infrastructure, the expansions and the maintenance. It is a requirement to comply with the conditions of implementing the second shifts and the service on weekends where necessary, and with this multiply the attention provided to the entitlement”.
He announced that the service of taking laboratory samples will be offered in the first level clinics. The objective is to prevent people from going to hospitals to perform this type of analysis, which will speed up attention times.
In his meetings and dialogue with the medical, administrative and entitled personnel, the head of the Issste listened to comments about the service, care and needs. He explained that the supervisions in medical units of the institute have the objective of knowing the conditions in which they operate and identifying the problems to solve them in the short, medium and long term.
Application of the booster dose against Covid-19
During his visit to Tlaxcala, he called on the entire population to apply the COVID-19 vaccine to those who have not done so or who have yet to complete the booster dose. For which, in this entity the Issste installed eight fixed points and a mobile unit that will be in force during the month of April, as well as other modules throughout the Republic. Everyone’s location can be checked at this link.
During the tour of the Huamantla Family Medicine Unit (UMF), Pedro Zenteno commented that a constant in the clinics he has visited is the lack of infrastructure maintenance.
“Many are in deplorable condition because past administrations neglected them and did not invest in improving them.”
At the Apizaco FMU, he recalled that four hospitals in Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca and Tabasco will soon start operations, as well as a Family Medicine Clinic in Islas Marías.
Later, he went to the Calpulalpan UMF, which was remodeled and expanded during his tenure as Regulatory Director of Administration and Finance. With this medical unit, Pedro Zenteno finishes touring the five first-level clinics and the Estancia for Well-being and Child Development No. 31 in Tlaxcala, which together serve 162,701 beneficiaries.
So far, the general director has visited 75 medical units and seven children’s stays located in eight entities: Campeche, State of Mexico, Hidalgo, Morelos, Puebla, Querétaro, Tabasco and Tlaxcala. The goal is to establish and consolidate the strategy that will allow us to provide services with quality and humanism to 13.6 million beneficiaries.