The federal public administration decentralization project was proposed since the beginning of the Q4 government by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but was stopped due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
But now the Ministry of Health (SSa) has decked out the tables and brought out the fireworks to celebrate the beginning of its transfer of its operation to Acapulco, Guerrero, with which they would be fulfilling the threat, I mean, promise to decentralize the main dependencies federal.
Despite the daily number of confirmed cases and deaths derived from the Covid pandemic, the new variants of the new coronavirus that emerge every day, the monumental shortage of medicines throughout the health sector – and even the private sector – and that it has not yet We came out of this third rebound of the disease, the health authorities are busy with the next move.
As we have said before in this space, changing the federal agencies to the states is not a bad idea, because we would get out, once and for all, of the historical centralism that we have sustained throughout our lives, in addition to generating mobility and injection of resources financial services to the different entities of the country.
However, moving to the SSa in the middle of a pandemic, because despite the official discourse, we still haven’t gotten out of it, it seems somewhat hasty and reckless.
In this framework, this official agency, whose head is Jorge Alcocer Varela, announced that trusted workers who refuse to move to the beautiful port of Acapulco will no longer be rehired, although base personnel may choose to request their change to another health area of the federal government.
However, to the trusted workers who expressed their disagreement, they responded that if there is any impediment to change of headquarters, they can request a change of assignment at the end of their contract for fees next December, but they would no longer be rehired.
Thus, in theory, some areas of the SSa offices have already begun to function from this Monday, October 4. For example, mid-level officials from the Institute of Health for Wellbeing (Insabi) were notified that starting this week they should start working in Guerrero.
It was last July when López Obrador took up this idea of decentralization and ratified that the SSa would move to the port of Acapulco. Therefore, the previous weekend, during a work tour to the entity, he visited the property that will occupy this agency, which was donated by the state government.
The health authorities have said that the change to the new headquarters will be made in phases, in such a way that in January 2022 it will be 100% completed. However, some offices of this agency are expected to remain in the Mexican capital.
It should be said that the change of location of the SSa includes all the national directorates and centers, but it had not yet been defined which ones would enter the first stage and which ones in the subsequent ones. In the end, most are expected to move to the new headquarters.
The decentralized body of the SSa, the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), which is our health agency, will remain in Mexico City (CDMX). We will see how this move works, which some already call a “new occurrence”, whose broken dishes we will only begin to see soon. At the time.
The medicine cabinet
- We are already in October and the federal government still does not say what will happen to the booster dose of the Covid vaccine from the Chinese pharmaceutical company CanSino, which was applied to the country’s education sector personnel. The same manufacturer came out to say a couple of months ago that a second application is necessary, because after six months the effectiveness of immunization decreases, which is fulfilled in November, since the vaccine was applied in the third week of May.
- On the other hand, despite the fact that next week minors between 12 and 17 years of age with comorbidities will begin to be vaccinated, this is not enough, as we have said, for which it is expected that the rain of protections from parents who seek to protect their children.