“We recover the people’s right to health,” says Sheinbaum along with governors

During the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the government of Mexico signed with 23 states the National Agreement for the Federalization of the Health System for Wellbeing, which aims to consolidate the operation of a single, universal, public, health care system, free and preventive.

The agreement was signed by the leaders of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Mexico City, Hidalgo, State of Mexico, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Zacatecas, Guerrero and Morelos.

According to the federal government, the IMSS Bienestar serves more than 20 million people in the country.

In the entities that signed the agreements, maintenance and conservation actions are carried out, which means starting up operating rooms that were not working, expanding intensive care areas, neonatal care, consultations, clinics, medical residences, “everything that can help that care is safer and of quality,” according to Zoé Robledo.

Equipment that reinforces care is also purchased, such as tomographs, mammograms, magnetic resonance imaging, heartbeat detectors for gynecological-obstetrics consultation, and electrocardiographs, among others.