Alma E. Muñoz and Alonso Urrutia
The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, September 14, 2024, p. 7
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that his successor Claudia Sheinbaum will finish and inaugurate the hospitals that he began building during his administration, because he will no longer have time.
In turn, the Secretary of Welfare, Ariadna Montiel, said that together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs they are gathering information that they will present to the future president for a strategy to provide pensions to senior citizens living abroad.
The rules of operation establish that this and all programs are delivered in national territory and that Mexicans living abroad may have a hard time, he said, delivering the required documents: proof of address, birth certificate, CURP and official identification. For example, he added, just over 50,000 people living abroad have a voter ID.
Montiel also detailed yesterday in the morning the investment of 35 thousand 17 million pesos that the government has allocated for the reconstruction of Acapulco and Coyuca de Benítez, Guerrero, as well as in support of the population after the passage of the hurricane. Otis.
In this context, the president indicated that Sheinbaum Pardo will inaugurate the Issste hospital in the port, large, equipped with the best. All this includes the rehabilitation of the clinics
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He mentioned that he will not have enough time to deliver the two hospitals that are being built in poor areas with the money obtained from the sale of the presidential plane: one in Tlapa, Guerrero, and another in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca.
He added that there are advances in five more hospitals, both from the regular IMSS and from IMSS-Bienestar, run by military engineers. He mentioned, among them, the one in O’Horán and Ticul, in Yucatán, another one in Puebla and the one in Calzada Zaragoza, Mexico City, which will also be inaugurated by the next president.
There is an agreement that the civil works will be practically finished by the end of this month, but the installation and operation will take two more months. They will be inaugurated in December.
he said.
He added that in the case of Issste, there are six more hospitals. The one in Torreón and Los Cabos is already finished, and tomorrow (today) we are going to inaugurate the one in Palenque.
and there are three more.
Regarding the purchase of hospitals, he indicated that There is a lot of progress being made. The agreement was reached, there are around 10
but admitted that there are some differences with two companies that They are resisting
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He added that an agreement was reached with businessman Olegario Vázquez to modify the contracts of three hospitals. We must thank him, because they were not contracts that were good for the public interest, they understood it and so are others.
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