One of the priorities of the Government of Mexico is to enforce the right to health. Within the framework of this commitment, the National Health Project in the Fourth Transformation of Mexico was made known.

The objective is that all Mexicans, regardless of their working or socioeconomic status, have access to health services in a comprehensive manner.

According to the program presented by the Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer Varela, at the Mexican Academy of Surgery, the main actions to be taken include providing medical services and free medicines to society, making legal and structural changes to meet the needs and granting services with quality and equity, until achieving universalization.

Also as part of the Fourth Transformation, it is intended that health in Mexico must have a vision of a state policy, that the Health System has to be reorganized, and that Primary Health Care (APS-I) becomes a new health policy for Mexicans.

To achieve this, it requires economic sustainability, a national policy, an institutional, cultural and social integration in which all the institutions that are part of the Health Sector participate.

In the medium term, the aim is to achieve the universalization of health services, implement transversal public policies, provide education for health, support technological and scientific development in the area and create a policy of free health services and medicines.

Finally, the Undersecretary of Integration and Development of the Health Sector, led by Dr. Asa Cristina Laurell, will change its name and will be called the Undersecretary of Welfare. Meanwhile, the Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, headed by Dr. Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, will be named Undersecretary of Public Health.

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