From the Editorial Office
La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, November 20, 2021, p. 8
The IMSS will reinforce the strategies aimed at providing better treatments to children with cancer who are cared for in the High Specialty Medicine Unit (UMAE) Hospital de Especialidades de Puebla, informed authorities of the institute to parents of pediatric cancer patients.
After a supervision visit by Célida Duque Molina, Director of Medical Benefits, it was reported that there are various areas of opportunity, such as the timely implementation of antibiotics, strengthening compliance with the Golden hour
, maintain a monitoring team until the treatment processes are consolidated, establish supervision, control and training measures for health personnel, among others.
Enrique López Aguilar, national coordinator of Oncology, explained that within the Hospital de Especialidades de Puebla the instruction was given to adapt as soon as possible the area of the State Reference Center for the Care of Boys and Girls with Cancer to improve the quality of the attention.
In addition, he stated that the instruction to commission another pediatric hematologist to the UMAE Puebla to reinforce that girls and boys with cancer have specialized care, change shifts to trained trusted personnel so that there is always coverage in the care of these patients and the management of having rotation of pediatric residents from another location was carried out.
