By stating that one cannot leave the government without fulfilling that promise, the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He promised that one year medical care and medicines will be provided free and universal in the health sector.
at your conference this thursday morning in the National Palace, and when asked why users continue to pay fees for these services, López Obrdaor acknowledged that these charges continue, since it is “not easy at all, more so when you come from a corrupt regime.”
“It is the right to health; nothing is easy, especially when you come from a corrupt regime, I cannot leave the government -it does not mean that I am going to stay-, I consider that in a year at the latest you will not be able to tell me that, “he said. .
“Today it continues to be charged,” he was told in the Treasury room.
“Yes, yes I think so, in a year, no, for free medical care and medicines, everything,” he replied.
President López Obrador explained that there is currently a 90% supply of medicines in the country’s hospitals and clinics; however, he recognized that the right to health, enshrined in article 4 of the Constitution, is a “dead letter”.
“The right to health, enshrined in the Constitution, is a dead letter,” he said.
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He assured that regardless of whether there are beneficiaries of the ISSSTE and IMSS, free and universal access to health services will be guaranteed.
“We already have a 90% supply of medicines, but when we arrived there was not even half, what there was was a great corruption in the purchase of medicines, that’s why they launched very strongly, but the corrupt could no longer and what a hard fight it was. launched, but we are very persevering”, he declared.
“We already have that very clear commitment: medical care for everyone, regardless of whether you have ISSSTE, whether you have Insurance, no, it is universal. This is the welfare state, the right to health, which is also enshrined in the Constitution, in article 4, but it is a dead letter, like many other things that are in the Constitution, which are statements, principles, but in the It doesn’t really happen,” he added.
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