So far in 2021, in our country only 74.5 percent of prescriptions issued in health centers and hospitals were fully available, according to statistics from the Third Government Report of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. This is the lowest figure reported in the last 21 years.
The shortage of medicines in the country’s nine public health care systems is such that a quarter of the prescriptions issued could not be fully filled, the document reveals. This is the third consecutive year with the largest shortage.
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Although care times improved at the first level (patients took no more than 18 minutes in hospitals), in one in four cases they did not receive the medicine prescribed by doctors.
In 2019 and 2020 there were not 22 out of 100 prescriptions issued by the health system, while in this year there have been no assortment 25 out of 100.
In the comparative measurement that the federal administration announces in the Third Government Report, it is seen that during the six-year term of former President Felipe Calderón also presented a similar situation, only in 2010, when they had 78.3 percent of prescriptions and shortage was 21.7 drugs.
So far, the last year of the government of former PRI president Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León is placed as the year in which the shortage was less, just 4.8 percent of the prescriptions issued. This means that 95.2 percent of the drugs were delivered to patients.
Although almost all medicines were delivered in that government, the waiting time for patients to be seen by a doctor was 29 minutes.
According to the Health Services Quality Indicators, the beneficiaries have not been so satisfied with the information on their treatment and diagnosis from the government of former PRI president Enrique Peña Nieto, when in 2014 the levels reached 99.1 per one hundred.
Satisfaction rates are currently at 98.6 percent which, while high, is lower than in years past.