translated from Spanish: Government will give 800 thousand million pesos more to Health for COVID vaccines and medicines

The federal government will allocate 800 billion pesos in 2022 for the acquisition of COVID vaccines, medicines, hiring of health personnel and improvements in medical services. 
For next year, according to the Draft Expenditure Budget, 794 billion pesos will be allocated to the health sector, which means an increase of 15.2% in real terms compared to what was approved for 2021, which was more than 667 billion pesos.
Before deputies, when presenting the PPEF 2022, the Secretary of Finance, Rogelio Ramírez de la O said that the increase in resources for Health “includes the acquisition of vaccines and medicines, free health services, attention to the lag of medical care and the increase of a workforce of health workers to address the pandemic.”

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The government estimates revenues of 6,172.6 billion pesos, an amount higher by 428.2 billion pesos compared to what was approved in 2021.
According to the Treasury, this increase is due to higher tax revenues (326.9 billion pesos), an increase in oil revenues (115.6 billion pesos) due to the higher price of oil that compensates for the lower production.

Social programs, another priority
According to the PPEF, the social protection of people living in greater marginalization is another priority for 2022.
The government proposes for the social protection function an expenditure of 1,477.2 billion
pesos, higher by 12.8% real compared to the amount established in the PEF 2021 and representing 28.2% of programmable spending and 43.4% of the Social Development purpose.
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The Treasury highlights “the strengthening of the Program for the Welfare of older Adults”, which will be the program to which greater resources would be allocated with 238,014.7 million pesos; followed by Pension for people with disabilities with 18,037.5 million; girls and boys with 2,785.3 million and Youth Building the Future with 21,196.6 million pesos. 

Priority projects
The federal government listed eight priority projects for 2022, to which 127,559.2 billion pesos will be allocated.
The work that will receive the most resources will be the Mayan Train, with 63,231.6 billion pesos.
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In 2021, the work in southeastern Mexico had an assigned budget of 36 thousand 287 million pesos so, in comparison, the figure planned for 2022 would be 74.2% higher. 
Resources will also be granted to the development of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the Mexico-Toluca Train, the extension of Line 1 of the Dairy – Jaltocan Suburban Train that will connect with the Felipe Angeles International Airport, the Lake Texcoco Ecological Park, the Los Pinos cultural center, hydraulic works and communications and transportation.

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Original source in Spanish