2023-10-03 23:34:00
Written in MONEY on 10/3/2023 · 5:34 p.m.
Since 2009, during the influenza virus crisis, health authorities had to recognize the importance of healthcare clinic records. Dr. Simi and the fact is that the medical offices attached to pharmacies in the country have fulfilled a function that the country’s public health system does not have, which is the promptness of care when going to family medical units in the country. IMSS o ISSSTE. In a period of 10 years, from 2013 to 2023, the number of offices adjacent to pharmacies (CAF) went from 13 thousand to around 18 thousand, and today, these spaces provide 10 million queries per month, to which even people with right.
Under this context, Walmart of Mexico and Central America Medical Services Center where it will offer “health solutions such as consultations with internists, pediatricians, dentists, nutritionists and psychologists, as well as more than two thousand laboratory tests and studies, X-rays, ultrasounds and electrocardiograms.”
At the moment, Walmart de México operates more than 1,500 pharmacies and 500 offices throughout the country. At the end of 2022, it served more than one million patients in the adjacent offices of its pharmacies. The Medical Services Center “will promote prevention as an essential component of health care for families in Mexico.”
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Medical attention
The most recent data of the Ensanut (2022) show that, of the 48.8% of the population that resorted to private services, 22.4% went to an office in the doctor’s home, 17.7% to one adjacent to a pharmacy, 3.3% to one in a hospital, 1.6% to a tower medical, 1.1% to emergencies or hospitalization and 2.7% to other private services.
The preference for offices adjacent to pharmacies occurs among people with and without rights, which implies that, in general, 36% of the population received care in them, while 48% did so in private units and 52% in the public sector.
Regulation of medical offices?
The medical office in each neighborhood in Mexico could come to an end with an initiative that Morena presented to regularize its operation. The initiative was presented by Senator Lilia Margarita Valdez Martínez and would put the doctor’s offices with adjacent pharmacies, such as Dr. Simi.
This is done through a series of regulations and modifications to articles on health, which try to promote at least four changes with respect to these medical offices, –
The initiative states that:
Its operation must be conditioned on the existence of the equipment and instrument indicated in the regulations, as well as in the official standards of the Ministry of Health. In no case may medical care be conditioned to consumption in the pharmacy, drugstore and adjacent pharmacy. The medical staff who works in said offices must be hired as established in articles 14 and 15 of the Federal Labor Law. The owners of drug stores, pharmacies and pharmacies will not be able to establish a bailment contract with the medical personnel who is in charge of the situation. Owners of pharmacies, drugstores and drugstores will be subject to the terms of article 260 bis of the Law. There will be fines of two thousand to 6 thousand UMAS for anyone who violates the provisions of the aforementioned articles, the amount may be up to 622 thousand pesos.
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