The Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) announced the recruitment call for doctors who want to join and meet the demand of patients in clinics and hospitals in 23 states of the country and integrate into the IMSS-Wellness program. The call will open today at 5 p.m. and will be open until April 23.
The director of the IMSS, Zoé Robledo, explained that this is an action plan so that no person is left without medical care and to cover the missing vacancies in 23 hospitals in Mexico, 276 municipalities and 281 towns in Mexican territory.
“It was identified that some – hospitals – only had an intern doctor and there was no doctor assigned to the health center, and in some cases there was an assigned doctor, but only one, and what we are looking for is that in all the centers health of an office, there must be at least two general practitioners to be able to work seven days a week,” said the head of the IMSS.
Robledo showed that there are hospitals and clinics in various parts of the country where they do not open on weekends due to the lack of specialist doctors, even for IMSS-Wellbeing workers, a bonus of more than 10 thousand pesos will be released so that they can Cover those missing work spaces such as: emergency physicians, internists, surgeons, pediatricians and gynecologists in rural hospitals.
Zoé Robledo presented in the morning conference the progress in the implementation of the IMSS-Bienestar and displayed on the screen of the National Palace that there are currently 53.2 million people without social security in Mexico.
“That is, attention, from Monday to Sunday, it is very common to see these health centers closed on weekends because they do not have enough medical staff, that is why today and until April 23, this new call for hiring doctors is published general for IMSS well-being, it is about 5,850 general practitioners in health centers from an office the next one that we do see,” he said.
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Zoé Robledo highlighted that in the 23 federal entities where IMSS-Bienestar operates, the Institutional Supply System for Medical Units was approved and that this program will be the only one in the world that provides free care to people without social security, that is, they do not make contributions.
2024-04-09 15:48:03
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