• They highlighted 34 transplants: 18 kidney, nine cornea, four hematopoietic cells, two heart and one liver, as well as 22 cadaveric donations.
• The goal established by the 35 Decentralized Administrative Operation Bodies and 25 Highly Specialized Medical Units was exceeded by 122.2 percent.
• The National Strategy for the Recovery of Services implemented in April 2021 by the general director, Zoé Robledo, coordinated and led by Dr. Célida Duque Molina, has allowed these results to be obtained.
The Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) carried out 188 thousand 675 actions during the 3rd Extraordinary Day of Continuity of Health Services, which consisted of 3 thousand 318 surgeries, 29 thousand 229 specialty consultations and 88 thousand 876 of Family Medicine; 62 thousand 391 detections of priority diseases, 4 thousand 827 Auxiliary Studies of Diagnosis and Treatment and, 34 transplants.
From February 10 to 12, these services were carried out, which allowed the goal established by the 35 Decentralized Administrative Operation Bodies (OOAD) and 25 High Specialty Medical Units (UMAE) of the country to be exceeded by 122.2 percent, and that allow the Institute to favor opportunity and access to its health services at the three levels of care.
He stressed that in these three days of activity, 34 transplants were carried out, of which 18 were kidney, nine cornea, four hematopoietic cells, two heart and one liver.
Twenty-two cadaveric donations were also made, of which five were multi-organ at the UMAE Hospital de Especialidades in Mérida, Yucatán; at the Regional General Hospital (HGR) No. 1 of Querétaro; at HGR No. 66 in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; the General Zone Hospital (HGZ) No. 3 of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, and the HGZ No. 2 of Saltillo, Coahuila; in addition to 17 tissue donations.
In these interventions, there are sanitary biosafety protocols to reduce the chain of contagion by COVID-19, which includes taking PCR in recipient and donor patients.
At the OOAD Chiapas, 157 Specialty consultations were granted, 45 for Traumatology and Orthopedics, 60 for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 30 for Neurology, 17 for Nephrology, and five for Pneumology; Also as part of the day, 456 Family Medicine consultations were granted, 139 explorations to detect breast cancer and 73 for cervical cancer; 36 mammograms, 291 detections of arterial hypertension and 165 of diabetes mellitus.
In Jalisco, 509 surgical procedures were performed, of which 380 were carried out as extraordinary actions for the recovery of services; the surgical specialties that performed the most were Ophthalmology, Traumatology, General Surgery and Otorhinolaryngology; in the External Consultation of Specialties, 3 thousand 218 consultations were provided; and in the First Level, in 74 Family Medicine Units, 8 thousand 429 actions for prevention, diagnosis and external consultation were granted, of which 6 thousand 061 were given within the framework of the extraordinary day.
In the High Specialty Medical Unit, Hospital de Especialidades No. 25 de Monterrey, there were 79 consultations for Ophthalmology, seven for Pediatric Neurology, 12 for Oncology, 12 for Radiation Oncology, 19 ophthalmological surgeries and 20 surgical procedures, in addition to performing a liver transplant, a pediatric kidney transplant and an adult kidney transplant.
Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, Thorax, Neurosurgery, Oncosurgery, General Surgery, Urology, Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial surgeries were performed at the UMAE Hospital de Especialidades of the Bajío National Medical Center, in Guanajuato; In addition, Hemodynamics patients were treated, which included people admitted to Infarct Code, as well as endovascular angiology procedures, colonoscopies, and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.