Mexico City. With the advance payment of 8 billion pesos, the supply of medicines will be regularized soon, said Luis Antonio Ramírez Pineda, director of the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers (ISSSTE).
He said pharmaceutical labs work on the production of the drugs and then deliver them to the body. Each week, the official said, the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) presents information on the progress of the process.
On a working tour of the Mixteca Nord region, Oaxaca, Ramírez Pineda also announced that tenders are underway for maintenance, replacement and purchase of equipment for ISSTE clinics and hospitals, as well. such as the call to hire medical staff interested in working in remote communities.
He pointed out that it is a great challenge to convince health professionals to pay attention to the Institute’s units located in secluded places; but it is working with universities, federal, state and municipal institutions, to achieve human capital in every corner of the country.
The director of the ISSTE visited the Family Medicine Unit of Tamazulápam de Progrés, which since 2012 has not received maintenance. Next year it will be part of the medical unit rehabilitation program for the benefit of 3,500 beneficiaries.
Once this clinic has the necessary equipment to provide quality care, it will join the strategy of promoting a culture of prevention among the Oaxaca, he said.
Later, accompanied by the elected mayor, Alfredo Feliciano Santiago, Ramírez Pineda visited the UMF in Nochixtlán, where work will be carried out to expand, equip and assign new medical staff to attend to five thousand beneficiaries.
The director of the ISSSTE was accompanied during his tour by the representative of the Workers’ Union of the institute, Norma Rodríguez; the federal deputies, Azael Santiago Chepi and Manuel García Corpus; local legislators Leticia Collado and Arcelia López; as well as of municipal president of Tamazulapam of Progress, Noel Hernandez, and the elect mayor, Ramiro Quiroz.