translated from Spanish: Optimize budgets to order drug availability in Michoacán, Gabriela Ceballos proposes

Noami Carmona
Morelia, Michoacán.- Optimizing the budget mechanisms, and allowing to order the availability, and granting of medicines and healing material in all hospitals of Michoacán, as well as ensuring that the budget linked to health services is never less than the previous fiscal year, is the proposal of the local deputy, Gabriela Ceballos Hernández.
In her explanatory memorandum, the NAP lawmaker recalled the shortage of medicines and inputs, and the shortage of staff in health institutions, recorded in the early 2020s across the country, a situation that has been aggravated amid a pandemic by Covid-19, and which has left HIV-affected patients in uncertainty in wanting to acquire the necessary antiretrovirals. Similar case, that of children and women with cancer waiting for insulin; senior adults who wait for several hours will have their prescriptions filled.
“In Michoacán we are no stranger to this problem, the state government has already expressed its concern about the issue of scarcity, at the end of last year, it was specified that, in the case of prescription drugs for children with some type of cancer, doses would be available until October and that through the purchase announced by the Government of the Republic they could request it for shipment to Michoacán. Today, we continue with a latent problem.”
Therefore, Ceballos Hernández seeks to have the Ministry of Health incorporated the attribution to organize, operate, supervise and evaluate such availability and granting of medicines and, on the other hand, that the Congress and the government of the State grant a budget to the health sector, which is not inferior in real terms, to the previous fiscal year, seeking to increase it gradually in subsequent years.
And I make an attentive call, so that at the time and sooner rather than later, we will do an in-depth analysis when considering having a budget with a health perspective, that we have availability and supplies, for obvious reasons and international urgency, in situations in other nations and alarms of possible pandemics in our world,” he added.
The initiative read in gallery by the NAP legislator seeks to amend Articles 6, 9, 10, and 14 of the State Health Act

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