The President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He assured yesterday that he fulfilled one of his main promises, stating that Mexico has one of the best Health systems of the planet, better than that of Denmark.
As president-elect, in October 2018, in Tampico, he indicated that “we are going to have a system like that of Canada, Englandthe one of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, the Nordic countries, first and foremost.”
The commitment was delayed in its fulfillment; last March, the head of the Executive He stressed: “Before finishing, we will have the most important public health system in the world.”
Yesterday, in his sixth report, he described it as a success: “It is already the most effective in the world… I said it was going to be the best, that it was going to be like in Denmark, No, it’s not like in Denmark, it’s better.”
However, the statistics contradict his speech, since the collective Zero Shortage indicates that in 2023, 7.5 million prescriptions were not filled in public institutions.
Last July, López Obrador acknowledged that the creation of the Institute of Health for Wellbeing (Insabi) did not work and was replaced by the IMSS-Bienestar, which has been operating for a year and which the head of the Executive considers “better than in Denmark.”
The President indicated that with the Megapharmacy “No one is left without medicines” and that the health centres in all communities already have “doctors seven days a week” because the population still gets sick on weekends.
On June 25, 24 HORAS published that the Megapharmacy of Well-Being that was inaugurated by the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has 17 keys in “expired” status on December 29 of last yearhaving supplied, in almost six months, only 750 pieces of different medications.
Regarding security, he boasted about the decrease in the incidence of most crimes during his six-year term and pointed out that there is no “narco-state”.
Lopez Obrador said that kidnappings were reduced by 77%; thefts, 29.5%, homicides, 185; and femicides, 36%.
He asserted that “now the people are not repressed, massacres are not carried out, there is no torture and there is no narcostate, like the one that was established in the previous six-year term,” headed by Felipe Calderón.
However, the President omitted in his speech the statistics on the crime of extortion, with an increase of more than 60% during his six-year term, compared to that of Enrique Pena Nieto.
He acknowledged that one of his pending tasks is to resolve the case Ayotzinapa, He indicated that the search for the students will continue for the remainder of his term.
But he did not devote time to the missing, since the last official cut has a figure of 115,532 people are missing in the countryof which more than 50 thousand acquired that status in the current Government.
Regarding the economic environment, he admitted that the country went through difficulties derived from the Covid-19 pandemic, but “we are going to end the six-year term with an average growth of 1%.”
According to the Center for Private Sector Economic Studies, This six-year term will end with the lowest economic growth figures of the last five six-year terms, that is, since 2000 when Ernesto Zedillo left power, when it was 4.7%.
In his speech, which lasted more than two hours, the president acknowledged that “the delay we suffer from the long and stormy period in which the Government was in less than insensitive oligarchs”.
The President listed for more than two hours a series of alleged achievements in the educational, social and tourism sectors, among others, which is why, he said, after October 1, he is confident that his project will continue. 4T to “continue building a new, generous and eternal homeland.”
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2024-09-03 23:41:14