Public health doctors protest conditions in Mexico

 24-Jun-16, The Yucatan Times 

While the Mexican government continues to face protests by teachers against Educational Reform, officials now must deal with another front: doctors and nurses in the public health systems. Right now a national strike is happening in more than 80 cities, with which the community health sector seeks to voice the trouble spots of the practice of their profession.

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The Universal Health System, an initiative of President Enrique Peña Nieto - announced since 2013 - proposes that all public systems exchange resources for the 700 most common diseases among the Mexican population. That is, if a person has diabetes and for some reason the hospital or clinic that corresponds doesn’t have the human or material infrastructure to serve them, they could be treated in another hospital from another institution.

Doctors argue that this measure was enacted without consulting their union and without taking into account the differences and deficiencies of hospitals and clinics from the different affiliations, and that probably, many of them are not prepared to receive more patients.

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