From 2015 to 2022, in Tabasco, 2,538 prostate antigen studies have been carried out; The study that is only done in nine public hospitals in the entity has gone from more to less in recent years, a situation similar to what happens with ultrasounds both to detect diseases and to pregnant women.
Information from the Ministry of Health shows on the one hand that the number of Prostate Specific Antigen tests have varied over the years, going from 121 studies carried out in 2015, to 600 tests in 2019; however, this number fell in the years 2020 and 2021, and until the first half of December 2022, the number reached 399.
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The report delivered to this editorial house shows that these tests are only carried out in community hospitals in the municipalities of Jalapa, Jalpa de Méndez, Nacajuca, Tacotalpa and Tenosique; and in the general hospitals of Comalcalco, Huimanguillo, Paraíso and Villa Benito Juárez.
The largest number of prostate antigen studies has been carried out at the General Hospital of Villa Benito Juárez, with 552 tests in the last eight years, followed by the 535 tests carried out at the Jalpa de Méndez Community Hospital and the 314 that have been carried out. at the General Hospital of Comalcalco during the same period of time. While in the Tacotalpa Community Hospital only 71 studies of this type have been carried out, of which 45 were carried out in 2016 and 26 in 2019; the rest of the years no antigen tests have been carried out.
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In mid-November, the Ministry of Health launched a campaign to invite men between the ages of 45 and 75 to have a prostate specific antigen test. The unit set itself the goal of carrying out a thousand tests; however, the agency’s data shows that they only reached 40 percent of the target set. Only 399 males were candidates for the antigen test in search of some cellular malformations.
In the event to present the campaign of the state agency, it was announced that 500 people have died in the entity due to prostate cancer, which can be detected by an antigen test; however, the number of tests performed has fallen over the years.
Ultrasounds are also going down in six hospitals
For its part, in the same period of time, that is, from 2015 to 2022, the number of ultrasounds performed to monitor pregnant women and to diagnose diseases, in six of the state’s public hospitals has decreased, while in three hospitals plus the equipment to carry out these studies do not work.
A report from the Secretary of Health of the state of Tabasco delivered to El Heraldo de Tabasco via transparency, shows on the one hand that the number of internal photographs used to diagnose some diseases and monitor newborns has fallen in six of the state’s public hospitals .
This is the case of the General Hospital of Cárdenas, which following carrying out 3,256 ultrasound studies in 2018, these went down until reaching 1,899 studies of this type in 2021; and until November 2022, this medical unit in La Chontalpa reported the performance of 918 ultrasounds.
The other case that draws attention is the Hospital de Alta Especialidad de la Mujer, which following having carried out 8,000 ultrasound studies in 2021, by the eleventh month of 2022 reported 1,649 studies of this type. This same pattern is repeated in the Health Center with Expanded Services of the Yokot’an Indigenous Zone, which following carrying out 2,094 studies in 2021, as of November of the year that ended last weekend, only reported 629 ultrasounds. made. It is not the only unit of this type in which ultrasounds have gone down. The situation is repeated in that of Villa Vicente Guerrero.
At the Emiliano Zapata General Hospital, these studies were counted up to 3,322 in 2019; by November 2022 they reached 1,219, and the Villa la Venta Community Hospital only reports 2,798 ultrasounds in 2022; in previous years it did not report any, despite the fact that since 2017 it has two ultrasound equipment.
The report from the Ministry of Health delivered to this editorial house also shows that in three hospitals run by the state government, the ultrasound equipment currently available does not work.
One of them is the Centla Community Hospital, where neither of the two ultrasound equipment it has works; The same situation occurs with the three teams at the Jonuta Community Hospital and the two machines at the Villa Benito Juarez General Hospital.
The health issue continues to be one of the great pending issues of the state and federal governments, which have led the president of Mexico to declare that if conditions do not change, he would change his name, without mentioning what name he would like to be called in the future.
