Faced with the urgency of reinforcing disease prevention and promoting self-care among public servants, the Institute of Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) unveiled a unique and exclusive service in the country. It’s about the Automated Detection and Diagnosis Clinic (CLIDDA). It is a unique medical model in the country for the analysis and monitoring of health status.
The general director of the Institute, Luis Antonio Ramírez, said that it is an exclusive health service of the ISSSTE that has the quality certification ISO 9001: 2015. It also has a package of studies to monitor and take care of the health status of the workers of 325 agencies of the Government of Mexico, with highly qualified and efficient care.
Requirements to receive the service
- Be an active worker of the Federal Public Administration.
- Make a contribution to the ISSSTE medical service.
- Be 25 years of age and older.
- Be apparently healthy.
- Not have acute infectious diseases.
- Be discharged from your Family Medicine Clinic.
Types of analysis performed
Cabinet Studies
- Clinic history.
- Visual acuity.
- Auditory acuity.
- Tonometry.
- Anthropometry.
- Electrocardiogram.
- Thoracic X-ray.
- Mammography
- Densitometry.
- Orthopantomography.
- Ultrasonography.
- Colposcopy.
Laboratory studies
- Hematic Biometry.
- Blood Chemistry with lipid profile.
- Urine General.
- Cervical cytology.
- Immunology (Hepatitis B and C, PSA, HIV).
For his part, the director of CLIDDA, Luis Raúl Meza López, pointed out that currently in the pandemic the role of this clinic has become more relevant because it is easier to prevent than to treat diseases and their complications for life.
He added that those who go to this service can confirm that they are healthy or detect some diseases in early stages, which could cause a decrease in their defenses that increase the risk of contagion or reinfection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
“The prognosis of all those patients who come to have Covid-19 will improve substantially if they are healthy patients in relation to those who have some undetected and consequently untreated comorbidity.”
He explained that a large part of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, cancer and some infectious diseases such as the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or hepatitis, can go several years without giving symptoms and are only detected through intentional tests of laboratory, imaging and cabinet, contrasted with an extensive clinical history.
The studies carried out at CLIDDA help reduce the risks of myocardial infarctions, cerebral vascular events, complications typical of diabetes that can lead to amputations, blindness or kidney failure.