In 2022 the IMSS-Bienestar ceased to be a program, to become a Decentralized Public Organization which is listed as the institution with the greatest capacity in the country for the care of people without social security. One of the goals for the first quarter of 2023 is to cover 31.5 million people without social security.
In Baja California Sur during 2022 approximately 113 thousand pesos were invested for the rehabilitation of operating rooms, adaptations of warehouses and pharmacies, waterproofing and painting of facilities, machine room maintenance, rehabilitation of electromechanical equipment and the comprehensive rehabilitation of medical units. Until the month of December in the South Californian entity there were 45 Cuban medical specialists.
The CEO of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoé Robledo announced during the press conference headed by the president of the republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, that the Program of Cuban Specialist Physicians which was signed with Cuban Medical Services, of the Ministry of Health of the government of Cuba and has been in force since August 2022, achieved the arrival of 55 medical specialists that were incorporated into various hospitals in the country.
The next arrival of Cuban medical specialists will be on January 27, 2023 y expected reach the national territory a total of 124 specialists in different branches of medicine such as: geriatrics, psychiatry, internal medicine, cardiology, dermatology, gastroenterology and allergology and immunology. According to what was announced by Zoé Robledo It is expected that four more specialists will arrive in Baja California Sur for the median peninsula.
“With this we are reaching the conclusion of a first stage with Cuban medical services that we are going to expand and that will materialize with 610 doctors with this arrival, plus the 490 who were already working in our country, who are mainly from the medical specialties. internal medicine, pediatrics, general surgery, family medicine, ophthalmology, ENT nephrology, intensive care doctors, cardiologists, traumatologists, gynecologists and neurologists who are already treating our country, I insist on these highly marginalized places where before there were no specialist doctors” .
Likewise, the holder of the IMSSannounced the results of the purchases in conjunction with the Health Institute for Wellness (INSABI) with which it was possible to achieve the purchase of medical equipment for nine states, including Baja California Sur. With a total of 7.4 million pesos, 306 pieces of medical equipment were acquired, at the moment 78% have been delivered, which represents 238 pieces of medical equipment delivered.
Deliveries will be made in the next 12 days corresponding to each of medical equipment partsas confirmed by Zoé Robledo so that seven days later the new Cuban medical specialists will arrive in the state of Baja California Sur. At the moment, IMSS-Bienestar serves a total of 10 million 179 thousand 427 beneficiaries from 9 states of the Mexican Republic.
