| | |  Health & Beauty | October 2009 
Calderón Urges Redoubled Efforts to Cope with A/H1N1 Virus
 Suzanne Stephens Waller - Presidencia de la República
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October 08, 2009
| | Calderón inaugurates ISSTE Specialty Clinics and Medical Specialty Units in Guanajuato. | |
President Felipe Calderón urged all Mexicans not to let their guard down in the face of the latest outbreak of the A/H1N1 virus; on the contrary, he said, elementary health prevention measures would have to be redoubled.
“I think it is important for us to continue working on this to be able to cope with the expected spread of the virus, in keeping with the seasonal change from now until winter.
During the second event of his tour of Guanajuato, in the municipality of León, the Mexican president inaugurated the ISSTE’s Specialty Clinic. He declared that during the economic crisis, Federal Government will continue to achieve its goals of guaranteeing access to health, since the crisis, “Should be a spur to continue advancing towards our underlying aim” of achieving universal health coverage.
“That is why I have submitted an Economic Package to Congress that will involve everyone's efforts as well as an approach not only to stop but also to speed up the alleviation of poverty and the provision of health coverage that Mexicans deserve,” he said.
Accompanied by state governor, Juan Manuel Oliva Ramírez, as well as Health Secretary, José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, the President reported that over the past three years, over 1,300 clinics, units and hospitals throughout the country have been constructed and remodeled.
Moreover, he added, Popular Insurance has tripled its budget this year from 16 billion pesos in 2006 to 48 billion this year.
He remarked that in this ISSSTE clinic, changes to the Institute's laws made it possible to invest over 212 million pesos that will benefit 80,000 local inhabitants and provide 100 jobs for doctors and nurses.
“I am convinced that we must continue to advance in health issues. We cannot stop and on the contrary, must continue," he said.
Later on, in the municipality of Celaya, President Felipe Calderón urged Mexicans not to slack and to continue with their joint work and fight to achieve the goals they wish to attain.
“These are difficult times, I know, but we are already beginning to get over them," said the President, adding that between June and September, 124,000 new jobs have been created throughout the country, 61,000 in this month alone.
“Now that we are about to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and the 200th Anniversary of Independence, I wish to congratulate this city on the anniversary of its founding and to invite the inhabitants of Celaya and Guanajuato to continue to work very, very hard,” he declared.
The President inaugurated four Specialties Units at the state's General Hospital: for Chronic Diseases, Primary Health Care against Addictions, Nueva Vida, the Center for the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and the treatment of mental health problems.
He said that magnetic resonance equipment worth 35 million pesos was also delivered, for the benefit of the 850,000 inhabitants of Celaya.
During the event, the President stressed the fact that the greatest health challenge Mexico faces is not A/H1N1 but the so-called epidemiological transition. In other words, we are evolving from a country with the characteristic diseases of a developing country to one with those of developed countries, treatment of which is costly.
“What we must do is to make an enormous effort to change several eating habits in the country and establish others such as exercise and sport,” he explained. |
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