President Andrés Manuel López Obrador led the presentation of the plan for the federalization of the system of health to all Mexicans. With which, it is also sought that the population without social security has access to medicines and free medical care.
Federalization of the health system: the rehabilitation and equipping of health centers and hospitals will continue
The Chief Executive stated that he will continue the rehabilitation and equipping health centers and hospitals. In parallel, there will be enough staff from Health seven days a week, as well as supply of medicines.
“When it was decided to buy the vaccines, around 45 billion pesos were used just for vaccines. So I calculate, in very general terms, that it will mean an investment of around 200 billion pesos for us to leave the health system as we are imagining it, ”he said.
The national president indicated that it is possible to resume these actions to strengthen the public system because the COVID-19 epidemic has already been on a downward trend for seven weeks.
The same team that worked to confront the pandemiccomposed of the Health Secretary, the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of National Defense. He will participate in the strategy. Through the IMSS Wellbeing model, the job to staff and there will be no cuts, President López Obrador said.
“No one is going to be fired. Those who were hired and helped us in the difficult circumstances of COVID-19 have their work guaranteed and also know that those who were under contract will be basified. It’s a compromise; Nearly 100,000 workers are going to be basified, it is something that we are going to comply with. (…) They are not going to lose their seniority, their benefits, there is not going to be a decrease in salary, on the contrary, they are going to improve,” he remarked.
Unlike the previous six-year terms, it will reach the same labeled budget of the health sector
He stated that, unlike the previous six-year termswill reach the same labeled budget of the Health sector to offer free medical attention, studies and medicines.
“If we put an end to corruption, we finish banishing corruption in the health sector, with the same budget we are enough to improve the health infrastructure. As well as having well-equipped health centers; (…) We are looking for a way to ensure that doctors are not lacking and we are going to have all the medicines”, he emphasized.
From dialogueor with the governors of the country, most have accepted the federalization of the health sector, he specified.
The general director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoé Robledo Aburto, announced that in Nayarit The transfer of health services from the state to the federal government will begin on April 1 with 261 health centers, 16 hospitals and 4 thousand 627 workers who will go to the administration of the IMSS Welfare.
One thousand 438 million pesos will be invested in this entity for the federalization process, which will translate into personnel, equipment and infrastructure of the medical units.
The head of the IMSS explained that during 2021 the diagnosis of the health services in Baja California Sur, Campeche, Colima, Mexico City, Durango, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Sonora, Sinaloa, Tlaxcala, Veracruz and Zacatecas with the aim of identifying the situation in each entity in terms of material, human, financial resources, general services, conservation and construction.
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