From the Editorial Office
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, July 27, 2022, p. 12
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) issued a new recommendation to the general director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, for the inadequate medical care provided in the family medicine unit number 38, located in Tampico, Tamaulipas , to a patient who in 2019 suffered a skull fracture due to a fall, which caused the deterioration of his health and his death.
The Coordination of Attention to Complaints and Special Cases of the IMSS reported that it received and analyzes recommendation 131/2022 of the CNDH. Likewise, it expressed its willingness to cooperate permanently with the purposes of the human rights guarantor body.
Having evidence of violation of human rights to the protection of health, access to information in this matter and life, the CNDH asked the IMSS to comprehensively repair the damage caused to the indirect victims of this case and collaborate in the follow-up of the complaints that said commission presents before the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic against the public servants indicated for the omissions described, among others.
On the other hand, the CNDH issued recommendation 132/2022 to the general director of the Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers, Pedro Zenteno Santaella, after personnel from the Chilpancingo, Guerrero, hospital clinic and the Centenario de the Mexican Revolution of Cuernavaca, Morelos, incurred in omissions that prevented adequate attention to a pregnant woman, which caused the death of her twins.