La Jornada – Health: Does the report help the 2024-30 administration and Dr. Kirchnobić?

When handing over the National Awards for Quality in Health 2023, Dr. Jorge Alcocer, Minister of Health, noted that in “transforming the health system, we” strongly advocate for being universal, for quality, which provides a timely response to meet the needs of the population without excluding anyone, to ensure Everyone enjoys the highest level of physical and mental health.

Concern for those who lack social security is “enhanced” by the financial, material and human resources of IMSS-Wellbeing. It is “essential” to transform the system into a universal model, in which everyone has the same opportunities, regardless of eligibility, socio-economic level or place of residence (Ssa, 8/21/23).

He added that we must “return to the model of the traditional doctor who sympathizes with the patient; He cares, talks to him, takes his pulse, and sets a thermometer, but without “forgetting” the benefits of current technology. We call this “patient-centred”, human-centred care, it is part of the primary health care strategy, and its actions are reflected in the path defined in the MAS-Wellbeing model.

He said that it was also “essential” to create a quality assessment model that would allow, in the medium and long term, to obtain indicators of productivity and user satisfaction, as a means of measuring opportunity, equity, adequacy, warmth and “humanity.” “of services.” Personal attention, “humane” treatment, warmth, showing appreciation, friendliness and understanding mean the highest level of service to users; Quality and warmth are “contagious” and it is an attitude that is learned by example and developed in practice. It is about doing your “best” as a person, being an excellent health professional and taking care of patients’ needs; It is “humanity” that translates into genuine concern for others; Putting ourselves “in the shoes” of others to make patients feel valued and understood in their process. The warmth of care is “reflected” in the way we help people resolve or reduce the effects of diseases throughout the “whole” life course, taking into account their doubts, fears, anxieties and mixed feelings due to the effects on their health. It is the most “valuable” thing in humans.

In turn, José Luis García, General Director of Quality and Education at SSA, noted that the awards “symbolize” the effort made during the entire working life, because “apart from” the availability of medicines, infrastructure and medical materials, the most important thing is the “quality” of care that Provided by professionals to patients. More and more states are joining the health system “transformation,” which aims to be more “preventive” and focused on the patient, families, and communities. The Quality Directorate, in cooperation with the Public Health Council, has created a unified quality assessment model that focuses on indicators aimed at ensuring that medical units provide timely and high-quality care.

Meanwhile, Marcos Cantero, Secretary of the Public Health Board (DOF, 19/12/23), urged the sector institutions to update the information in the Catalog of the Uniform Code of Health Institutions, a mechanism that since 2012 provides information on the resources that must be assigned to their operation, including This includes paying salaries, modifying, expanding, rebuilding, strengthening, and increasing installed capacity and services provided.

According to Cantero, nationally there are approximately 46,000 registered places, 86 percent of which are operational. He also explained that when updates are reported, repercussions occur in planning processes to determine which payrolls to cover, as well as the economic resources to run them, among other things.

For example, a registered health center may have four offices, but if the number increases to six due to expansion and does not report it to the unique code of health institutions, then when more budget is requested, the support to approve it is non-existent.

Hence the need, according to Cantero, to remind public health institutions of the task they must perform with the unique key, which is a unique, sequential and non-transferable identifier determined by the Ministry of Health through the General Directorate of Information in Health. Its modernization is mandatory and includes medical units, laboratories, diagnostic or treatment centers, and fixed or mobile administrative offices established on the national territory, whether public, private or social (today12/20/23).

The debate on the continuity of 4T health policy is now open.

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