Gálvez proposes that governors return to state health systems

Celaya. When presenting the axes of her health plan, the presidential candidate of the Force and Heart for Mexico coalition (PAN, PRI and PRD), Xóchitl Gálvez, spoke out in favor of all the country’s governors assuming the state system, which would imply renounce the federalization of the sector that the federal government launched with the IMSS Bienestar model.

In addition, he acknowledged that in some parts of the country Seguro Popular “failed,” but argued that it was due to “bad hands” in those entities, and once again offered to return this system if he won the electoral contest.

In an event in which she was accompanied by the candidate of this same coalition for the governorship of Guanajuato, Libia Dennise García Muñoz Ledo, both presented details of their health proposals this morning in a hotel in Celaya.

As one of the axes of her strategy, the presidential candidate called for taking as an example state health systems “that do function like the Guanajuato health system,” since she pointed out that state governments must be co-responsible.

“Really, governors, what a way to give up your health system! I believe that there is no better place to serve your citizens than locally. “Why did they want to be governors if they want to wash their hands of security, health and education,” she noted.

At the same time, he stated that, if he wins the elections, he will ask the governors of Morena to reintegrate into state health systems.

“I believe that the health system must be attended to locally; with support from the federal government, yes; with supervision of the federal government, yes, so that what happened in Chiapas with the Popular Insurance does not happen where they diverted more than 3 billion pesos from the Popular Insurance and then the governor had to return by another means so that they did not take away his resources,” he added.

Immediately, he justified that “those from the Green Party are now allies of Morena, but what happened with Seguro Popular where it failed was due to mismanagement. On the other hand, Guanajuato applied 100 (percent) resources and that is why Guanajuato has the health system it has.”

In front of representatives of the private sector linked to this sector, Gálvez Ruiz stated that she would “pull equally” with all the country’s governors and proposed rescuing the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) and improving regulatory policy to promote the approval of new medications.

He asserted that “Cofepris has been dismantled and politicized, and has also denied or delayed the approval of innovative therapies.” He offered to strengthen it with “true operational, administrative and financial autonomy. This means access to new medications for thousands of diseases that are already being applied.” throughout the world but that in Mexico are not available due to the inability of this government or because of the belief that there is neoliberal science. For me, science is science.

He also advocated for a national drug purchasing system to guarantee supply, which he proposed making transparent. “Let people know how they are buying in Guanajuato, or in Campeche or Chihuahua, I think competition is healthy and so is transparency.”

Likewise, he proposed that in the purchase of inputs, “transparency would allow us to take advantage of the economy of scale and public and private collaboration.”

“We are going to promote and invest in scientific health research for the development of medicines and new products to benefit the health of the people and the economic growth of the country. No more incapacity and corruption at the forefront of health, no Hugo López-Gatell, rest assured. And no son of a president will do business with medicines, I guarantee it,” said the opposition standard-bearer.

Insisting that the president’s children have incurred possible irregular contracts, he said: “he (the President) is going to tell me that mine, but that drunk guy doesn’t pass.”

After concluding the presentation, Xóchitl Gálvez moved to the city of León, where he will lead two more events that day. As he passed through the center of Celaya, he got out of the van in which he was traveling with the governor’s flag bearer and talked with gorditas sellers, who were wearing aprons with propaganda from the Libya Dennise García Muñoz Ledo campaign. The workers received without apparent surprise that the presidential candidate came to shop with them, and they instantly allowed her to take the dough to prepare a gordita that she ate and another that she ordered for her husband.