Juarez City.- The Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) reported that although there are around 500 lagging surgeries in Ciudad Juárez due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as announced in query 330018022009860 via Transparency, in the period of 2019 As of 2021, it carried out almost 50,000 operations for beneficiaries through various strategies, “endorsed its commitment to society.”
Through the request delivered by the National Institute of Access to Information (INAI), the IMSS stated that from December 2020 to the same month of 2021, due to health contingency, it left 478 surgeries suspended: 315 at the Hospital 66, 156 at 6, plus 7 more at 35.
“Despite the health emergency, through the three hospital units in this border city, from 2019 to 2021, a total of 49,928 surgical procedures were performed,” Social Security added.
It has also implemented additional measures to advance deferred coverage, both in the consultation room and in the different operating rooms.
He added that through the framework agreement, he also established an agreement so that private medical care buildings would attend to those who were requiring aid of greater clinical importance.
In that sense, he pointed out, it was possible to expedite people on this border who required appendectomies, as well as cholecystectomies, cesarean sections, hernioplasties and other types of urgent conditions.
“The main challenge faced is being able to efficiently provide the service or services to the population, which due to the Covid contingency, suffered a delay in their care during 2020 and the first months of 2021, without neglecting the care of patients suffering from Covid, which is contemplated to be solved with the organization and standardization of processes,” he officially indicated in IMSS.
abate lag
Social Security has also implemented additional measures to advance deferred coverage.
Supported by private services
Through the framework agreement, an agreement was established so that private medical care buildings would attend to those who were requiring aid of greater clinical importance