▲ Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo reiterated the need for educational spaces for all students at the secondary and higher education levels.Photo Pablo Ramos
Angels Cruz Martinez
The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, July 23, 2024, p. 4
Between October and December, health promoters and nation’s servants will visit the nearly 12 million adults aged 65 and over, to conduct a census and apply a questionnaire, in order to find out about their health status, the medicines they take and what they spend their pension on
of well-being. With this information, starting in January 2025, house-to-house visits by doctors will begin, reported the virtual president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum.
In a press conference held at his transition house, he gave further details of the program Today for You, Tomorrow for Us, which he announced last Sunday in Querétaro, during the sixth tour he carried out with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The census will also investigate the frequency with which people go to the doctor and will identify people who are bedridden in order to provide them with the care they require.
The former head of the Mexico City government indicated that the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), IMSS-Bienestar and the Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) will analyze whether it is necessary to hire more nursing and medical personnel to carry out the strategy.
This is because visits to senior citizens will be made every month. In addition, the welfare pharmacy project will be carried out to guarantee the filling of medical prescriptions.
Regarding the amount of the budget that will be required for the program, he mentioned that is being worked on
in this, but the application will be in charge of the Welfare and Health secretariats.
Sheinbaum said that this would be one of the topics she would address yesterday at the meeting she held with the members of the health team headed by Dr. David Kershenobich, the next Secretary of Health. The director of the IMSS, Zoé Robledo, also attended.
On another topic, he reiterated the need for educational spaces for all students at the secondary and higher education levels.
To this end, during his administration he will seek to open 300 thousand spaces in universities, mainly in Rosario Castellanos, which is already the first choice for young people entering that level.
Previously, this institution was ranked fifth as an alternative for high school graduates, which means that young people now recognize that Rosario Castellanos University responds to their interests for their educational development.
Lopez Obrador Did a lot
with the new Mexican school, textbooks, the permanent training of teachers, among other actions in the educational sector, he said.
It is up to us to review what is missing.
such as reforming the Teachers’ Career System Unit and strengthening high schools.
Sheinbaum reiterated her intention to eliminate the single exam applied by the Metropolitan Commission of Upper Secondary Education Institutions. It should not exist. We are here to defend the right to education.
The same applies to the training of specialist doctors, which must be strengthened. During the López Obrador administration, the number of places in medical residencies was doubled, he stressed. During the following years, the expansion of spaces in hospitals will continue, such as the 80 whose construction is about to be completed, he affirmed.
Today, Sheinbaum will go to the National Palace to meet with the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Rogelio Ramírez de la O, to review the 2025 budget project.
Shortly after noon, he will hold talks with the next Secretary of the Environment, Alicia Bárcena.
