The Health Tragedy in Mexico Today Margaret Zavala - El Universal
go to original September 2, 2022

Precisely when Mexico — and the world — faced the most difficult moments in terms of health, our country had the worst government in the matter. No one imagined that we would have a president capable of destroying Seguro Popular without having something to replace it. The worst government of the century and of modern times in Mexico. We can see it in all terms: hospitals, medicines, institutes, budgets, sub-exercises, maintenance, technological and physical infrastructure, spaces, etc. All this translates, unfortunately, into a deterioration of health in the best of cases. In the worst case with death, a death that could have been avoided at least with the previous health system.

For example, the Health Institute for Wellness (Insabi) is one of Morena's bad occurrences, an occurrence that obviously could not respond to the health emergency that the presence of Covid meant for Mexico. At this time we were victims of the decision of a person who delegated all, truly all decisions, to an undersecretary — acting as secretary — whose rudeness and determination full of arrogance and without scientific foundation and seriousness led us to the death of almost a million Mexicans. The President, in the best of cases, was deceived by Hugo López-Gattel, what is unforgivable is that he continues to believe him and tries to give him even more power in health decisions instead of strengthening the institutions.

On September 8, the government will present the economic package. Within that package they will deliver the health expenditure budget. And what we have today are alarming data, data that the opposition must carefully consider and with respect to which we must demand and monitor the following:

1) 7 out of 10 boys and girls in Mexico do not have the complete vaccination schedule. It is the worst moment of vaccination with regard to Mexican children. What can a middle-class family do when their child has measles and hospitals or health centers give them an appointment months later? Will you go to a private doctor to pay with resources you do not have?

In the case of children, we still suffer the tragedy of boys and girls who, having cancer, cannot access treatment or pay for medicine. The misfortune also lies in the fact that Seguro Popular did cover these treatments and now, as a result of a political decision by this government, children with cancer are dying. Nearly 1,800 preventable deaths.

2) We see the lack of effective access to medical services in the endless queues to be treated and reach the nearest appointment, with the consequent loss of health and also of the economy of families. This has also compromised all health institutes such as nutrition, cancerology, rehabilitation or pediatrics, which have twice as many patients, but have never received twice the budget, on the contrary, they receive budget cuts. The result is that a person who requires an emergency operation is given an appointment months later. In the end, those who can do so end up paying for a private doctor or, in most cases, go into debt to be able to pay for it.

3) The lack of medicines has marked this administration and, above all, reflects the result of the decision to destroy and dismantle the previous medicine supply system. The consequence is the death of patients or the cruel deterioration of their health because, in addition, the medicines that do exist do not reach their final recipients. They dismantled the system to agglutinate power and achieved the shortages for which they did not plan, did not design and did nothing.

These are just three examples where the opposition, not just parliamentary groups, need to pay attention. We will present, in the parliamentary group, some proposals on these matters.

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