| | |  Health & Beauty | October 2008 
Calderón to Expand Investment in Health
 Presidencia de la República
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| | During the inauguration of the Leonardo Bravo Specialties Clinic and the Nicolás Bravo Diagnostic Support Center, President Calderón proposed investing additional $4.5 billion pesos in health for 2009. | | |
In view of the adverse international economic situation, President Felipe Calderón declared that the Federal Government will not restrict or cancel health investment and instead increase infrastructure in this area above what Congress has proposed.
During the inauguration of the Leonardo Bravo Specialties Clinic and the Nicolás Bravo Diagnostic Support Center, in the East Area Complex of the Social Security and Services Institute of State Workers, the President declared that the authorities in Mexico are working hard to ensure economic growth and employment through infrastructure works.
President Felipe Calderón reported that his administration has suggested investing $4.5 billion pesos above the amount proposed for the 2009 Budget in health infrastructure, a billion of which will be specifically used to boost the ISSSTE infrastructure.
He noted that in the past, the lack of conditions and macroeconomic scope for dealing with situations such as today's forced the country to tighten its belt, but now, he said, the country is able not only not to contract but also to expand public investment.
Accompanied by Health Secretary José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, and the directors general of the ISSSTE and IMSS, Miguel Ángel adn Juan Francisco Molinar Horacasitas respectively, President Calderón stated that to date Federal Government has invested over $7 billion pesos in the expansion, construction and equipment of hospital infrastructure, and that nearly one hundred million pesos were invested in the two works inaugurated today.
The Mexican president highlighted the importance of the new ISSSTE law, adding that the right decision was made regarding this institution, since it triggered a risky situation that would be reflected in a crisis in the country's public finances.
"I have no doubt that we now have a stronger, more solid ISSSTE prepared to cope with the new health requirements imposed by the population dynamic and the change in patterns of incidence in diseases," he explained.
The inauguration of the Specialties Clinic and the Center for Diagnostic Support will rearrange the Institute’s Health Services in the east zone of the Federal District and the municipalities of Mexico State and will benefit the 780,000 persons affiliated to the ISSSTE in that zone. |
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