The still President Andrés Manuel López Obrador met This Friday morning with President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum at the National Palace to discuss the progress of the IMSS-Bienestar Program.
From his social networks, López Obrador published a series of photographs of the meeting in which also eGovernors in office and elected were present, emanating from Morena, such as Rocio Nahle from Veracruz and Alejandro Armenta from Puebla, inter alia.
The president confirmed in his message that the meeting took place in the Ambassadors Hall of the National Palace in order to evaluate the progress of the IMSS Bienestar health program.
The meeting lasted two and a half hours and at the end, Sheinbaum and López Obrador left together, aboard a black van heading to TexcocoState of Mexico, to inaugurate the “Ecological Park, Lake Texcoco”.
He Mexican Institute of Social Security for Welfare (IMSS-Bienestar) Its purpose is to operate health services for the population without social security, providing them with first and second level medical services, this under the Health Care Model for Well-being (More-Well-being), which Regardless of age, gender, religion or economic status, receive medical care in public health institutions.
It is worth mentioning that, first class services It includes general outpatient consultations, i.e. dental care, basic clinical laboratory tests and simple x-rays. It consists of health centres, medical offices, dispensaries and family medicine units. This is the most basic and common medical care, provided by “general practitioners”.
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The second level of care includes consultation services in basic specialties, general hospitalization such as pediatrics, gynecology-obstetrics, internal medicine and surgery, and diagnostic support services such as special clinical laboratory tests, radiology with contrast media and ultrasound. This is care provided in general hospitals.