Two years later, after the Insabi failed to meet the goal of providing free medical care and drugs to the entire population without social security, the federal government transferred that responsibility to the IMSS-Well-being, transforming it from an institutional program to a decentralized public body.
“It is so clear that the Insabi attempt failed that the government itself, by trying a new mechanism, is confirming that, in effect, the previous one failed,” said Chertorivski, now a federal deputy for the Citizen Movement.
Although the IMSS-Well-being has been a successful program in the care of rural communities, it is likely that it will fail in the new assignment because the mistake is repeated: it was created without an accurate diagnosis and without the necessary resources, he said.
“It is very worrying because it will be two years lost again and the situation will worsen again for the population not entitled to social security, and with an addition: in the eagerness of the IMSS to fulfill this new occurrence of the president, they are going to have to divert IMSS resources from the ordinary regime to attend to the new system. So, we are destined for a new failure, ”he considered.
drug purchases
Salomón Chertorivski mentioned that the second bad decision of this government was the destruction of the drug purchase and distribution system. First, he recalled, that responsibility was taken away from IMSS to be transferred to the Ministry of Finance.
Later, the government decided that the purchases would be carried out by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).
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