| | |  Health & Beauty | September 2009 
President Calderón Hails Heroic Work of IMSS Workers during Influenza
 Presidencia de la República
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September 08, 2009
| | The Social Security Institute is one of Mexicans’ best loved and most highly admired and respected institutions. | |
Mexico City - President Felipe Calderón confirmed his government's commitment to overhauling the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), adding that despite adversity and the depth of its problems, “We are working hard to save this institution, which is one of the most beloved, admired and respected by Mexicans.”
As he led the IMSS Hundredth General Assembly, the President said,
“We are making an extraordinary effort, even in adversity, not only to preserve but also to strengthen the Social Security Budget for next year."
President Felipe Calderón urged society to look after the IMSS and to find mechanisms that will provide it with the resources that this noble institution needs to continue serving Mexicans.
He declared that now is the time to act with solidarity, patriotism and a vision of the future and he urged its workers, employer, labor and trade union representatives and the administration to construct the Social Security Institute of the 21st century.
In this respect, he said: “As Director Daniel Karam has already pointed out, the IMSS’ financial viability in seriously at risk. The use of reserves, which we will now propose and request that Congress approve, is essential to guaranteeing its operation, so as not to reduce its level of service, but this will obviously not provide a structural solution to these problems.”
Accompanied by Secretaries of Labor and Health, Javier Lozano Alarcón and José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, respectively, he explained that he is seeking new approaches to solving the Institution's problems and to do so without sacrificing the modernization and expanded coverage the IMSS requires.
He explained that the participation of the Social Security Institute is crucial to overcoming the three great challenges of our time: First: The challenge of the full exercise of the right to social security to protect Mexican workers’ and their families’ health, quality of life and economy.
Second. The challenge of universal health coverage, so that all the country's inhabitants, through the Health Sector institutions will, with no distinction or exception, be able to have access to doctors, medicines and treatment as and when they need. And third. The challenge of the demographic and epidemiological transition.
The President also recalled the tragedy that occurred in the ABC Nursery in Hermosillo, Sonora, which not only grieved the residents of Sonora, but all Mexicans.
“As President, as a citizen and as a parent, I would once again like to express my solidarity and commitment to the relatives of the children that lost their lives in the ABC Nursery and to repeat Federal Government's commitment to continuing to establish responsibilities in this case,” he said. |
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