2023-08-05 06:30:26
• Beneficiaries will avoid traveling to Cancun to receive medical care• Health used to be a business, today it is a human right: Pedro Zenteno• With a medical unit, the support of the Government of Mexico to the region is demonstrated: Atenea Gómez RicaldeISLA MUJERES, QR.- The general director of the Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers (ISSSTE), Pedro Zenteno Santaella, handed over the remodeling, expansion and renovation works of the Family Medicine Unit (UMF) of Isla Mujeres , Quintana Roo, for the benefit of 3,461 beneficiaries, who will no longer have to travel to Cancun to receive care. “As part of the silent revolution of ISSSTE, we are fulfilling one more commitment to guarantee medical attention to affiliates in decent, decent, equipped facilities and with sufficient personnel, because the obligation of the State is to provide health services to the people, it is a right”, he indicated when cutting the inaugural ribbon of the UMF.The patients will have everything they need to receive medical care. The next step is to carry out laboratory studies here, complying with the instruction of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to bring services closer to the people. “Before, health was a business, today it is a human right,” he said.This work, as well as the construction of the three Regional Hospitals (HR) in Jalisco, Coahuila and Guerrero, with 250 census beds each, as well as the General Hospital (HG) of Tamaulipas, with 150 beds, and the Hospital Clinics (CH ) of Baja California Sur and Chiapas, with 20 beds each, in addition to the medical equipment, furniture, and integral maintenance that is carried out in all the institute’s hospitals, are an example that the contributions of the people are applied adequately and honestly to benefit of the beneficiaries, he added.He explained that the work at the UMF consisted of expanding the lobby, a family medicine office, a dentistry office, treatment room, toilet, public restrooms, waiting room, biological-infectious hazardous waste (RPBI), garbage room, machine house and guardhouse. This will double the queries. “The new ISSSTE is a reality”.He stressed the importance of improving first-level clinics, since they have a fundamental impact: they serve 80 percent of the rightful population. In addition, they are essential to reinforce prevention and avoid the increase in cases of chronic-degenerative patients.The municipal president of Isla Mujeres, Atenea Gómez Ricalde, stressed that with the work of the UMF, the help of the Government of Mexico reaches the inhabitants of the entity. It is an example of the teamwork of the three orders of government, “because health is a priority, but also a great pending”; that is the importance of this work.He stressed that having a clinic equipped to care for people in this area is of the utmost importance, since access is often closed due to the condition of the island. With the remodeling and expansion, from now on it will be possible to attend better, without having to go to Cancun.In Quintana Roo, ISSSTE provides coverage to 200,000 beneficiaries in 10 medical units, six first level and four second level. As part of the equipment for the state, 780 pieces of furniture and medical supplies, 18,993 pieces of uniforms, hospital and operating room clothing, as well as seven emergency ambulances and transfers have been distributed.During the tour of the new UMF, the general director was accompanied by: the director of ISSSTE Representation Offices, Israel Acosta Ibarra; the medical subdelegate of Quintana Roo, Martín Perales Martínez; the person in charge of the Benefits sub-delegation, Alex Guillermo Ortega Teller; the head of Health Services of Quintana Roo, Myriam Ortiz Enríquez; and the person in charge of the UMF Isla Mujeres, Roger Jesús Quijano Uicab.
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