After reactivating the consultations after the recovery of services in the face of the decrease in covid-19 cases, the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) of Nuevo León reported thatand exceeded 1 million 070 thousand 800 medical consultations.
In a statement, the agency explained that of the little more than a million inquiries, 972 thousand 430 were from family medicine, while 98,370 corresponded to medical specialties.
Among the consultations of specialties offered, added the department in charge of Karla López, are the de internal medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, obstetrics, cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, neurosurgery and ophthalmology.
As well as those of otorhinolaryngology, pulmonology, nephrology, dermatology, angiology, rheumatology, psychiatry, traumatology and orthopedics, oncology, urology, hematology, endocrinology, geriatrics, physical and rehabilitation medicine.
“With the reincorporation of the services, in two months 10,945 mammograms and 633,590 detections of diseases were carried out: 173 thousand 125 of diabetes mellitus, 291 thousand 410 of arterial hypertension, 106 thousand 811 of breast cancer and 46 thousand 627 cervical cancer,
“For safety and as part of the measures implemented to break chains of contagion, in March of last year the IMSS granted refill prescriptions for vulnerable patients,” determined the IMSS.
The Delegate said that, during the National Day on Public Health, the May 13 to 16, vaccines were applied to cover the basic schemes, as well as actions of promotion and education in health, prevention that benefited 176,410 beneficiaries.
“The IMSS Nuevo León joined the effort to promote strategies within the framework of the” International Day of Action for Women’s Health, benefiting a total of 10,264 women right holders with talks and sessions, “added López López.
Lastly, he said that surgical procedures are carried out using strict hygiene protocols in order to prevent coronavirus.
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