Dr. Felipe González’s Work Team and Priorities for Ministry of Health: Minister, Vice Ministers, and Access to Medicines

Dr. Felipe González, chosen by President-elect Santiago Peña for the position of Minister of Health, confirmed yesterday through a press conference his work team, which will be made up of Dr. Héctor Castro, who currently works as director of the Expanded Immunization Program (PAI), for the position of Vice Minister of Comprehensive Health Care; and Dr. Luis Carlos Báez will occupy the Vice Ministry of Rectory and Surveillance, from next August 15.

“They are both very proven people. Above all, what we are looking for is decency and that they are people with an approved track record,” González remarked before the press. “We have known each other with Héctor for a long time, we worked at the Acosta Ñu Children’s Hospital, needless to say the outstanding work he carried out, the work he had in relation to the expanded immunization program during the pandemic is a person who, apart from his capacity and the management he has had, has allowed the most difficult moments that we have had at any given time in the face of the pandemic to decrease.”

On the other hand, he was also full of praise for his colleague Luis Carlos Báez, who has highlighted his proven worth in implementing the management of institutional protocols in the hospital during the pandemic that allowed them to have favorable levels of scope that were recognized by all citizens; as well as an excellent “battle partner”.

The future Minister of Health referred to the meetings that he will hold with the members of the transition team of the president-elect, Lea Giménez and Carlos Fernández Valdovinos, on how the budget for the health portfolio will be proposed and what their work prospects are in terms of the estimated budget available.

Regarding his management in the first 100 days, he stressed that he needs to put the house in order that will already work with him, a team that he is forming so that once I know about the takeover, he can begin to see the priorities that will be, for example, cancer patients and emergency areas and provide them with greater dynamism.

PRIORITY: ACCESS TO MEDICINES

Dr. Felipe González, until now director of Ineram, assured that his priority at the head of the Ministry of Health will be to achieve prompt health and at no cost to citizens and that they have access to medicines in the public health system.

“The president’s request to be by the side of the people, to arrive first with medicines to the different subsystems, to begin educating citizens in important things, in such a way as to satisfy the citizen demand for prompt and cheap health, without cost in the pockets as much as possible for citizens,” he had mentioned to Universo 970 AM/Nación Media.

2023-07-21 04:18:29
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