Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), President of Mexico, traveled to Juchitán de Zaragoza, oaxaca to monitor the progress of the IMSS Wellness Health Plan. In a press conference he made a new promise to improve the health system.
“Yesterday I commented that my adversaries, opponents, conservatives, corrupt, laugh at me when I say that we are going to leave a health system like Denmark’s and they laugh,” he mentioned at a press conference. However, she assured that he will not only fulfill that commitment but will exceed it.
“They don’t know that I am a man of my word and that commitments are fulfilled. It’s not going to be like the one in Denmark, I already thought about it, it’s going to be better than the one in Denmark”.
López Obrador pointed out that the pillars of the plan to achieve this objective are: recruitment of personnel to attend IMSS Bienestar hospitals, improvement of health centers and rural hospitals, resolution of the deficit of specialists and supply of medicines.
Regarding the issue of specialists, AMLO once again accused past administrations of promoting an educational system that rejected millions of applicants to study Medicine and various specializations. He assured that this produced a lack of medical personnel.
He announced that he will promote a strategy to rehire specialists who worked for the IMSS, with which he assured the problem would be solved, even if only half of them accepted.
“There are 10,000 specialists in the country, in Social Security, retirees who are still able to provide service because they are between 55 and 65 years old (…) So what are we offering to those 10,000? that they are going to keep their pension and that we also give them work and guarantee them a five-year contract”.
Likewise, the president promised that the 124,000 health sector workers who were eventually hired will obtain their base before the end of his six-year term.
In relation to the issue of medicines, he accused that there was corruption and that with the strategy currently followed they achieved a saving of 48 billion pesos that will allow them to supply and not only the basic table.
“There was a mafia that was in charge of selling medicines to the government. Ten companies, which were not even laboratories, sold 100 billion pesos each year to the government. A company sold 50 billion pesos of medicines, of course, linked to corrupt politicians.
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