The Mérida City Council offers medical services
Caring for the health of Meridans translates into a better quality of life and at the City Council we focus a good part of our efforts on reinforcing this aspect, especially now that we live in the middle of a pandemic, said Mayor Alejandro Ruz Castro.
When conducting a supervisory tour of the itinerant modules of the Health Fair program, which took place in the “El Bate” park in the San Antonio Xluch neighborhood, the municipal president confirmed the care provided by mobile mammography units, general medicine and dental, in neighborhoods and police stations in the city, bringing quality services to the population.
Ruz Castro greeted the medical staff and after thanking them for their work urged them to continue offering quality and human services, especially now in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic that affects the population and affects different areas of daily life.
“As a city council we are committed to inclusion and generosity and that forces us to continue focusing resources and efforts to provide services, actions and public health policies, always giving priority to the common good,” stressed the mayor.
Accompanied by the director of Social Welfare, Jesús Aguilar y Aguilar, the mayor also spoke with some citizens who were waiting their turn to be treated, who he urged not to lower their guard in the presence of Covid-19.
Benefited
During the supervision, Aguilar and Aguilar commented that so far 66,394 people have been treated in the medical modules of the town hall.
“Of this total, 12,172 people were treated by medical personnel during the pandemic,” he stressed.
He added that, in that same period, through the Women’s Medical Attention Center, 915 women were attended and 880 mammography studies were carried out in the Mobile Unit. The cost of this service and the ultrasound is 100 pesos.
Aguilar and Aguilar also said that resources for more than one million 429 thousand pesos are allocated per year for the operation and purchase of medicines and supplies for the medical modules, including the CAMM.
He mentioned that, in total, the city council has 29 medical modules in city neighborhoods and 7 in police stations.
In addition to the general and dental consultation, he pointed out that the health fair offers bone densitometry services (detection of osteoporosis), weight and height measurement, blood pressure, rapid glucose tests and a nutritional orientation table.
“In total we have the support of 31 doctors, 31 nurses, 30 dentists, 3 nutritionists, 6 psychologists and 4 rehabilitators supported by interns from various universities, they serve them,” explained the official.
The itinerant health fair’s hours of operation are from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., without prior appointment. To know the calendar and the places where health services will be offered, citizens can enter the website: https://www.merida.gob.mx/salud/unidad_movil.phpx
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