A pending assignment in the state, said Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, governor of Nuevo León, it was support for girls, boys, adolescents and women with cancer who were left in uncertainty and almost helpless after the disappearance at the federal level of the Catastrophic Expenses Protection Fund.
Now, he pointed out to the president, the State will invest 130 million pesos of its resources, which will be allocated to the University Hospital, which absorbed the care of the patients who were treated under the Popular Insurance scheme.
“For a month we have been working on this, to be able to support quickly and effectively, that girls, boys, adolescents and women with cancer have the certainty that the state will be aware of you; It is an assignment that we had pending ”, he specified.
This resource will be valid from May to December of this year, with a monthly contribution of 16.3 million pesos.
For his part, Manuel de la O Cavazos, Secretary of State Health, reported that in the entity there is a scenario of care of 4 thousand 458 minors with childhood cancer and 336 women with cancer, especially breast or cervical.
For the former, he said, the cost of attention is around 240 million pesos, and for the second of 135 million pesos, for a total of 375 million pesos.
The appeal, assured De la O Cavazos, will be for maintenance of equipment, radiotherapies, chemotherapies, and feeding of patients.
While Carlos Garza, state treasurer, explained that these 130 million pesos are from state fiscal resources, as well as the budget that had been reserved for, where appropriate, acquiring anti-covid vaccines.
In addition, he boasted, under this administration, health spending increased 325 percent, and investment in health more than 43 times compared to 2015.
While the director of the University Hospital, Edelmiro Pérez, thanked the support and reported that at least 4 thousand consultations for breast cancer are carried out per year in the HU.
“And this gives hope to continue handling them properly,” he said.
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