Tlaxcala and Hospital Juárez de México strengthen care for the population with cancer

The Tlaxcalan population suffering from cancer will be able to access the highly specialized medical services provided by the Hospital Juárez de México, thanks to the signing of a collaboration agreement for the referral and counter-referral of health services signed by the Governor of Tlaxcala, Lorena Cuéllar Cisneros with Gustavo Esteban Lugo Zamudio, general director of the hospital that in 2022 celebrates 175 years of offering medical care to the country’s population.

With the agreement, the population of Tlaxcalteca will be able to access highly specialized care to treat cancer conditions that are detected at the Tlaxcalteca Institute of Specialized Health Assistance (ITAES), that is, they will not only remain in confirmation of the type of cancer that it be diagnosed among the population, but rather that with the intervention of the current state government, an alternative of highly specialized care can now be offered to the Tlaxcalan population that needs it.

At the Xicohténcatl Theater in the capital of Tlaxcalteca, the head of the state Executive indicated that this agreement will be essential for the care of patients diagnosed with cancer, and will also further strengthen the medical care of the population in a more comprehensive manner, with greater opportunity and with doctors of the highest national prestige. Therefore, she thanked the Hospital Juárez de México for its willingness to collaborate with the current government of Tlaxcala to promote health care for the population.

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“Health is a priority for the government of Tlaxcala because health is everything, it is for everyone and it is a task that demands commitment, dedication, a sense of duty and above all collaboration and professionalism,” said Cuéllar Cisneros.

In his speech, Lugo Zamudio indicated that the Hospital Juárez de México has 53 medical-surgical specialties, 10 central operating rooms, two operating rooms for emergency obstetric care, it also houses 520 postgraduate resident doctors, an average of 110 intern doctors and generally has about 800 undergraduate students being trained, and it is part of the various medical services that the Tlaxcalan population will have access to.

“With this sum of efforts, universality and accessibility to people’s health will become real because currently in their journey to attend to health they travel through many paths that make it tortuous to reach second and third level care centers, but The signing of this agreement will allow the population to have greater accessibility to highly specialized medical services”, he mentioned.

The Hospital Juárez de México has a history of providing health services for 175 years and with this agreement the accessibility to health for the population will be faster and more agile, in addition Lugo Zamudio recognized the effort of the state government to privilege health of the Tlaxcalan population because nothing can be done without health.

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Also, it will make accessibility possible, “we will collaborate with all the energy and in the following times services will be opened that at the end of the year we will be incorporating ourselves into a set of activities to consolidate kidney transplant, cornea transplant, bone marrow in adults and pediatric patients. , next year we will join the liver transplant and it will be accessible to the population of Tlaxcala”.

Likewise, the general director of ITAES, Adán Baltazar Lima Bernal, indicated that breast and cervical cancer is a health problem in the world that generates an economic expense in families and health systems, in addition, breast cancer is of greater incidence in the world, in Mexico and Tlaxcala.

He indicated that according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), in 2020 the mortality rate from breast cancer at the national level was 17.94 deaths per 100,000 women over 20 years of age and older, in Tlaxcala that incidence is 14.42 deaths in the same age range.

Lima Bernal added that at ITAES the necessary studies are carried out promptly and within no more than 10 days the diagnosis of cancer is made and the family is informed of the disease, and that is as far as the intervention of the institution, since the Patients have to seek their specialized medical care by their own means, which is why this agreement was signed to offer the Tlaxcalan population suffering from cancer the power to have a treatment option for patients.

This collaboration agreement for the referral and counter-referral of cancer patients to the Juárez Hospital in Mexico allows joining efforts to benefit a greater number of patients in the state and attend to the health of Tlaxcalans, which is a priority of Governor Lorena Cuéllar Cisneros.

The signing of the agreement was attended by the medical director and administrative director of the Hospital Juárez de México, María Isabel Rojo Gutiérrez and Maricarmen Cruz Maldonado, respectively; the Secretary of Health of Tlaxcala, Rigoberto Zamudio Meneses; the deputy president of the Health Commission of the State Congress, Lupita Cuamatzi Aguayo, as well as state and municipal officials and local legislators.

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