'PrevenIMSS' Services are Made Available to City Hall Workers

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With the aim of bringing City Hall workers and their families, promotion and health care provided by the Mexican Institute of Social Security, having joined this institution, Mayor Ramon Martinez Guerrero and Jalisco's delegate of the Institute, Benito Carranco, launched together with medical and municipal authorities, the conference of 'PrevenIMSS', that over this week, will be taking care of allof the public servants in the various buildings of the Municipal Government, with informative talks, guidance and preventive activities.

The mayor said that "it is one step further to ensure social security and health care for workers, to restore the services that the municipality is obliged to grant and that was one of the responsibilities that previous administrations left pending."

He therefore asked the officials to be patient in the transition that is occurring after joining the IMSS, for besides the services of health promotion, on this day they will be able to answer their questions about the care they will be permanently receiving in the clinics, as there is openness "to resolving it immediately case by case with the warmth and quality deserved" thanks to the link that has been made between the City, Social Security and the Union of Municipal Workers.

He announced further that in a next step, there will be a solution to the issue of State Pension, so that civil servants can recover this provision, which was also left aside by previous administrations.

"The efforts made by the municipal government and the union of workers, are not only related to joining the Social Security, for which I am sure that I have the support of the delegate and the directors, but we will also standardize and improve care in providing this service, besides the efforts we have made to increase by 10 percent the earnings of workers with lowest wages in the municipal government and which in the next budget we will be bringing closer to 20 percent, not to mention the effort we are making together to resolve the issue of State Pension. I think that now in the government we are delivering this slowly, we wanted more, yes, we would like to improve, yes, but we're not advancing by speeches but by deeds, "said Guerrero Martinez.

In his intervention, the representative of the IMSS in Jalisco, Benito Carranco, described as important the adherence of the City Hall staff to this institution, which he said, in the state caters to 63 percent of the population, with a network of 16 hospitals of second level, 109 units of family medicine, 111 pharmacies and 3 highly specialized hospitals like the Western Medical Center. He added that through the program 'PrevenIMSS', you can get a snapshot of the health status of civil servants and their families and enable the processes of care that they require.

'PrevenIMSS' is a strategy that brings health services to companies to improve, maintain and restore the health of the workers, under a framework of responsibility, and thus help improve their productivity.

These actions are offered on five areas: Health Promotion, with the informed delivery of primers and of the health care ways; Guidance in topics according to the age of the workers; Nutrition, with measurement of weight and height, waist circumference, nutritional assessment and counseling; visual disease detection, cervical cancer and breast cancer, hypertension, diabetes and cholesterol, and pulmonary tuberculosis; Disease Prevention and Control, with preventive vaccination informed delivery of condoms and actions focused on oral health.

It is worth noting that the mayor and the president of the DIF, Magaly Fregoso, put the example by being the first to receive each preventive service offered by the program.

[readon1 url="http://notivallarta.com/2013/07/09/acercan-los-servicios-de-prevenimss-a-trabajadores-del-ayuntamiento/"]Source: NotiVallarta Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]