Juarez City.- The federal government ruled out changes in medical care for the population without rights to this border with the transfer of resources and functions from the Institute of Health for Well-being (Insabi) to the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS)-well-being. The delegate in Chihuahua of the Ministry of Well-being, Juan Carlos Loera de la Rosa, said yesterday that the transfer does not imply that Social Security “opens the doors” of its facilities to those who lack medical coverage, but rather that this segment will continue to be served in the infrastructure managed by the state government with federal resources.
“It is separate, one thing is the ordinary IMSS, the open population will not be served there unless there is some agreement and the federal government pays the IMSS (…) But it does not mean that the doors of Social Security have already been opened and the offices and Family Medicine Units for the entire population and now add 200,000 to the entitlement”, said Loera.
“The question is where they are going to attend to the open population, because it is right there, in the hospitals (of the State, with money that was from Insabi),” he added.
The businessmen of the entity warned in recent days against a possible overload in the IMSS before the modification approved in the Legislative Power, with which the resources and functions of the Insabi -which serves the population without rights- will be integrated into the IMSS-well-being, which depends on the central management of the institute, in charge of Zoé Robledo.
“That doesn’t help anyone, because neither those who pay nor those who don’t pay are going to receive dignified care,” said Sergio Mendoza, state president of the Economic Development group.
“From the point of view of national Coparmex there is a lot of concern, because from the outset the quality of the Social Security service has deteriorated enormously, simply with the supply of prescriptions, which was close to two or three percent, it went up to 10, 12 percent without filling (…) That is with the current entitlement of Social Security, imagine all this burden that they are going to add. I think that Social Security does not have the capacity,” Mario Cepeda, a leader in Juárez of the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic, said on Friday.
In this regard, Loera de la Rosa said that although Imss-bienestar depends on the General Directorate of IMSS at the central level, it has federal resources different from those of tripartite origin with which attention to rights works -and which includes quotas of workers and bosses.
Data from the Así estamos Juárez study indicate that, until 2020, there were 268,154 people without rights on this border, while the IMSS serves 1.2 million affiliates.
