▲ Until last Sunday, more than 4 million older adults had been registered.Photo Cristina Rodríguez
Alexia Villaseñor and Emir Olivares
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, December 31, 2024, p. 10
In February, consultations in homes will begin as part of the House to House Health program, which will be in charge of 22,500 nurses, of which 14,577 have already been hired, reported the Secretary of Welfare, Ariadna Montiel.
During the presidential conference at the National Palace, he explained that until Sunday, through the Health and Welfare Census, 4 million 29 thousand 914 older adults and 514 thousand 696 people with some disability had been visited.
When analyzing the needs of the age group, Montiel said that, in general terms, We have found diabetes and hypertension, but what older adults want most is to be talked to and visited
. Based on this, there will also be attention to your mental health, and even a review of your family networks and relationships.
He announced that 964,556 beneficiaries have been registered for the Women’s Wellbeing Pension program, of which 810,988 are in the age range of 63 and 64 years; In addition, 153,568 between 60 and 64 years old, who are considered for a pension because they are indigenous and Afro-descendant women. He clarified that the cards will be delivered in January and payments will begin in February.
Meanwhile, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo estimated that construction will begin in mid-2025. little by little
from the Wellbeing Pharmacies attached to each of the more than 3 thousand branches of the Wellbeing Bank.
He explained that the medicines will be distributed in those locations most important for the control of diseases such as diabetes and hypertension for older adults and some for people with disabilities, so that when they go to collect their pension from the bank they can, also for free, have their medication
.
The president explained that it’s going very well
the bidding for medicines and offered that in the coming days the Undersecretary of Health, Eduardo Clark, will attend the conference to present the progress of this process.
The first objective is to have all the medications in health centers and hospitals, in the IMSS-Bienestar, in the IMSS and in the Issste
said Sheinbaum Pardo.
Furthermore, he revealed that there is just over 700 thousand Homeland vaccines
that will be applied to the population. He explained that the volume of purchases of biologicals against covid-19 is no longer the same as in the most difficult moment
of the pandemic. Now, he detailed, no longer widely applied; The guidance from medical institutions is that it be applied to vulnerable people, mainly older adults, and those with diabetes or hypertension problems.
.
Likewise, he wished all Mexicans Have a happy 2025
and he anticipated that in the next conference, on January 2, he will report how Mexico closed in 2024 in economic, social and political terms.
