Mexico City.- According to the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the federalization of the healthcare system It will involve an investment of 200 billion pesos.
To give you an idea, when it was decided to buy the vaccines, 45 billion pesos were used. 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 expressed during his conference on Tuesday.
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When presenting the plan that will be carried out in the states that voluntarily decide to join the IMSS Welfare system, the president pointed out that the resources will be used to rehabilitate hospital facilities of the states such as health centers, purchase of medicines, equipment as well as the payment of salaries to medical personnel, specialists and nurses.
López Obrador recalled that this system will make it possible for millions of Mexicans without social security to access health services and medicines for free every day of the year at any time.
All together we are strengthening the health system for the open population, those who do not have social security, which are about half of Mexicans and the poorest people, most in need,” stressed the president, assuring that no health worker will lose employment rights or you will be fired.
Until now Nayarit, Tlaxcala and Colima are the three states in the country that have expressed their desire to join the federalized health system.
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While in Baja California Sur, Colima, Durango, Mexico City, Campeche, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Sonora, Sinaloa, Zacatecas and Veracruz, censuses have been taken to estimate what it would take to make the decision to join.
At the same time, the director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) Zoé Robledo Aburto explained that in the case of Nayarit, which will be the first state to federalize its health services, next Thursday, March 17, a transition table will be installed that will possible transfer of state health services to IMSS Welfare.
For March 23 of this year, Zoé Robledo explained, it is contemplated to set up a call center to resolve all the doubts and concerns of the workers in their transfer process.
While the starting date for the entire federalization process was chosen on April 1 of this year.
According to the director of the IMSS, the transition process to the IMSS Welfare in Nayarit entails an investment of 1,438 million pesos.
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