Puerto Vallarta News

Puerto Vallarta News

Mexico’s new National Health Plan calls for expansion of free healthcare

As part of the National Health Plan 2019-2024, the Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer Varela, announced that he will implement a policy of free services and medicines for the population without social security and that he will start in centers and clinics in the states with the greatest poverty.

He argued that the objective is to implement the fourth constitutional article and serve the 20 million Mexicans who are without access to healthcare.

He acknowledged that health protection is still an aspiration that is far from being met, hence the existence of abandoned facilities, overload of services, lack of . . .

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