Magadan Salazar, indicated that there are other equipment that have faults, there are no medicines and not enough supplies. “Normally, an item is allocated for maintenance or technical emergencies, but at this time there is none of that,” he said.
Physical investment spending on health continues to decline
The latest data from the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) showed that, in the first two months of the year, the government allocated 292 million pesos to physical budgetary investment in health, which meant a decrease of 4.3% with respect to the resources that were exercised in the same period of the previous year.
It highlights that physical investment in this area has fallenfor the first two months of the year, since 2016. 2015 was the last year with growth in resources for physical investment in health, with a rate of 28 percent.
Likewise, it is the lowest amount of resources allocated to physical investment in health, for a similar period, for 19 years. In 2003, 200 million pesos were allocated to the item.
Expenditure on physical investment refers to the resources that are destined for the acquisition of movable, immovable and intangible assets. where is included the purchase of buildings, furniture, equipment of a diverse nature, computer systems, vehicles and transport equipmentamong others, as well as allocations for public works and productive development projects.
Represents only 0.31% of spending on infrastructure
Health represents 0.31% of the resources that are allocated to spending on physical investment in total. In the first two months of the year, these resources totaled 94,009 million pesos, which represented a growth of 9.6% compared to last year.
“Since the beginning of the current six-year term, projects such as trains, airports or refineries have been a political priority; health, no. In 2021, physical investment in health was 15.9 billion pesos, 42% below that reached in 2011, the year in which the highest amount in this area was recorded. If this is analyzed in per capita terms, in 2011 the government dedicated 236 pesos for health infrastructure, but by 2021 only 122 pesos were dedicated. In 2019, prior to the pandemic, only 90 pesos were dedicated,” highlighted an analysis by México Evalúa.
According to Treasury data, in the physical investment spending the category of others. Where the autonomous, administrative and general branches are included, as well as federal contributions to entities. It was the one that concentrated the greatest resources, with 53.750 million pesos, 33.3% more than last year.
It was followed by the energy sector, to which the government allocated 37,291 million pesos, 12.1% less than in the first two months of 2021. While the item of communications and transportation concentrated 1,753 million pesos, 32.6% less in annual comparison.
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