Colima.- At the start of his work tour in Manzanillo, Colima, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the implementation of the IMSS Welfare program in this entity, in Nayarit and Tlaxcala contributes to achieving the purpose of guaranteeing the universal right to health of the Mexicans.
He stated that the objective of the IMSS Welfare Health Plan is to provide free quality medical care to more than half of the population that does not have social security. Through a diagnosis in all the medical units of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), he said, actions are determined to rehabilitate infrastructure, guarantee the supply of medicines, equip hospitals and have sufficient medical specialists.
“Yesterday we were in Tlaxcala and they were relatively happy because the supply of medicines went from 50 percent to 80 percent, but we said no, we want a hundred. And the same here in Manzanillo, Colima and in all the states,” he explained.
The general director of the IMSS, Zoé Robledo Aburto, reported that in Colima there are already 80 percent of medical specialists to serve the population and stated that 96 percent will soon be reached for the entity to become the first with 100% health coverage. During the supervision of the Health Plan in Colima, the chief of the Executive delivered qualifications to doctors and nurses of the entity.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported that the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández, will meet with Governor Indira Vizcaíno Silva to meet the demands of the inhabitants of Colima.
The president was accompanied by the governor of Colima, Indira Vizcaíno Silva; the Undersecretary of Expenditures of the SHCP, Juan Pablo de Botton Falcón; the general coordinator of Social Communication and Spokesperson for the Government of Mexico, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas; the head of the IMSS-Wellness Program Unit, Gisela Lara Saldaña; the municipal president of Manzanillo, Griselda Martínez Martínez and the director of the IMSS-Wellness Manzanillo Hospital, Édgar Jesús Gudiño Chávez.
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