Chihuahua.- Families spend around 30% of their income on health expenses, when they should be covered by the public health system, said Coparmex president Salvador Carrejo Orozco.
In the state of Chihuahua, the average daily salary of formal workers in June is 603.75 pesos, around 18,112 pesos per month, so the outlay on medical care and medicines can reach 5,400 pesos.
The employers’ leader explained that this is a sensitive issue, which is why it is urgent to address the lack of hospital capacity, medicines and the precarious services registered by the IMSS.
He indicated that it is necessary to sit down and talk with the authorities of the Institute about the anomalies not only with the service, but also with the internal management of the IMSS itself.
Meanwhile, the president of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE), Federico Baeza Mares, said that for companies it is sometimes easier to financially support workers to have a minor health problem treated in a private consultation, than to go to the IMSS, since this is complicated and time-consuming.
For this reason, he said, many companies have authorized loans of up to 8 thousand pesos to workers who suffer a minor accident or illness and require urgent studies or the acquisition of some medication.
He said that companies can provide part of this loan, and the rest can be paid in monthly installments by employees so that it is not difficult for them. “These are arrangements that companies and employees reach,” he said.
He mentioned that this is an extraordinary cost for companies, but sometimes it is easier given the deficiencies that the IMSS registers.
He said they are seeking to hold a meeting with the IMSS delegate in the state to address the issue.
The IMSS was the institution with the most complaints to the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) in the state, accounting for 66.3 percent of the files, out of the 211 received until the end of the first half of 2024.
The most recurrent violations were failure to provide medical care, improperly providing public service, failure to comply with legality, honesty, loyalty and efficiency, and failure to provide medication.
Other violations recorded included obstructing or denying the provision of social security, poorly performing medical procedures, failing to provide hospitalization services, and violations of the rights of the elderly.
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