From the Editorial Office
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, March 24, 2022, p. 10
The Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) presented the comprehensive care protocols (PAI) for chronic diseases and their complications, which indicate guidelines that health personnel at the three levels of care must apply in prevention, diagnosis and treatment actions to beneficiaries with heart conditions, such as high blood pressure, acute heart attack and cerebrovascular disease, and diabetes mellitus.
In the auditorium of the National Academy of Medicine at the XXI Century National Medical Center, Dr. Célida Duque Molina, director of Medical Benefits, said that these protocols are focused on early detection, education and co-responsibility in individual and collective health, the expansion of medication options from the first level, intensification of non-pharmacological treatment and the option of double and triple pharmacological therapies in a single pill.
He pointed out that this work began in 2020 and the 1,525 family medicine units, the 243 second-level hospitals and the 25 highly specialized medical units participate in its implementation.
He affirmed that throughout the country, more than 100,000 professionals have been trained for the multidisciplinary health groups in the EPIs, with the purpose that this have an impact on disease control
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He reported that in the previous two years the pandemic, stress, isolation, anxiety and other factors are associated with a variation in weight that could be up to four kilos per person.
