A group of eight Cuban doctors they will work in the hospital IMSS-Wellbeing of the municipality of Rosamorada, Nayarit, although they are expected to be 60 those who stay in different parts of the state; it was the president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador who ratified the hiring despite the opinion, he said, of “the conservatives.”
“It was an instruction that I gave, knowing how our adversaries, the conservatives, were going to respond; I made the decision to hire specialist doctors from abroad, and doctors from Cuba are going to come (…) Because health has nothing to do with ideologies, it has to do with human rights, and if they have to be brought from the United States , from Russia, from Cuba, Japan or France, we are going to have them here, but the important thing is that we have them”, insisted López Obrador, during his visit to the municipality.
In addition, the president said that the priority is that the activation of hospitals is in both shifts and weekends, since until now, there are communities in which there are no doctors to attend Saturdays and Sundays.
For his part, the secretary of health, Jorge Alcocer, confirmed that before the insufficiency of specialist medical personnel in Nayarit, they hired 49 foreign.
“Se has contracted 49 medical specialists, that as all of you know, it is clearly insufficient, and in due course you will know the complementary strategy for this; that has already been raised, that of hiring doctors from abroad so that these positions can be filled, ”he said between shouts and local health worker demands dissatisfied because they assure there is no clarity with the delivery of places.
Federalization of the health system in Mexico will have all the money you need, promises AMLO
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He promised that there will be no financing ceiling for the federalization of the health system in Mexicothis during the report for the 100 days of his fourth year of Government held this Tuesday.
He pointed out during the report that he was not going to talk regarding the budget allocated for the plan, since “there is no financial ceiling” or a limitand that all the money needed will be allocated.
As an advance in this area, the president stated that Inventories have been carried out in at least 14 entities in the countrysame that have worked to have knowledge of the needs of each health center in Mexico.
“We have already started in Nayarit with the new evaluation plan to obtain results and replicate the voluntary federalization method in all states”, explained Andrés Manuel López Obrador during his report carried out at the National Palace.
In terms of health, the president also assured that clinical analyzes and 100 percent supply of medicines throughout Mexico; Job positions and benefits for more than 80,000 health workers will also be regularized.
President López Obrador promised that with the strengthening of the health sector, all centers will be staffed even on weekends because “people also get sick on Saturday and Sunday”.
Finally, he assured that the administration will continue with the efforts so that each health center has general practitionersspecialists and health personality.