Mexico to Achieve Universal Health Coverage by 2011: President Calderón
 Presidencia de la República
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| | This year, 7 billion pesos will be invested in the construction of hospitals and health centers. | |
Culiacán, Sinaloa.- President Felipe Calderón reported that this year, Federal Government will invest nearly seven billion pesos in the construction of hospitals and health centers, adding that at this rate, Mexico will achieve universal health coverage in 2011, regardless of the economic conditions our country is experiencing.
To achieve this, he said, the Federal Budget has assigned $350 billion pesos for 2009, nearly 50% more than the amount invested when he came to power, while coverage for families without IMSS or ISSSTE has been expanded through Popular Insurance and Medical Insurance for a New Generation.
During the inauguration of the Women’s Hospital in Culiacán, Sinaloa, which will benefit 100,000 women in that city and its surroundings, and in an event in which he was accompanied by State Governor Jesús Aguilar Padilla and Health Secretary José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, the President said, “What we are doing is investing heavily in Health Caravans, a programs that uses trucks and other vehicles to transport a small operating theater, doctor's surgery and dental equipment to all those communities. Here in Sinaloa, for example, the program benefits nearly 50,000 people inhabiting highly and extremely highly marginalized communities."
Moreover, he added, Federal Government is also giving an unprecedented boost to the expansion of the national hospital infrastructure. “In other words, we are investing heavily in hospitals I have had the satisfaction of completing hospitals that were begun 15 years ago. The foundations were laid 15 years ago and now these hospitals are being used by Mexicans," he declared.
He added that, "This year, we are also assigning the unprecedented figure of nearly $7 billion pesos to infrastructure for hospitals and health centers.”
Likewise he said that by dealing with the issue of their workers' pensions, IMSS and ISSSTE reforms, the two institutions have reinforced their finances, meaning that last year, for the first time in a quarter of a century, the number of beds in the Mexican Social Security Institute and the ISSSTE grew more quickly than the number of beneficiaries.
“We have also reinforced the Popular Insurance Scheme, which was already a very good program. In 2006, there was a budget of $16 billion pesos for the Popular Insurance Scheme. This year the budget for the Popular Insurance Scheme is $48 rather than $16 million, meaning that we have tripled the budget assigned to this scheme," declared President Calderón. |
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