Mexico City.- Hours after handing over the Government of Mexico City to Clara Brugada, Martí Batres assumed the reins of the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers (ISSSTE), in which its now former head, Bertha Alcalde Luján, admitted multiple issues.
On the 13th floor of the ISSSTE headquarters building in Buenavista, in Mexico City, the Mayor, with just over seven months as general director of the ISSSTE, pointed out that her team handed in their resignations yesterday in the last hours and entrusted Batres to take care of an institution who, without elaborating, said that he is going through various problems.
“The truth is that there is a lot of knowledge, a lot of issues to transmit, to leave behind. Not only is it the issue of health, the issue of pensions, the issue of children, of the elderly, it is really taking care of people. just like a social security institution,” he explained. “It has many edges, yes, many problems, but I also believe that there are many ways to solve these problems. We have already been seeing it in these meetings. We are sure that this change will be for the better, that they will be able to attack the problems, that they will be able to to a better port for this institution where we have already made so much progress, but there is still much to do,” added the official.
After listening to it, the former Capital Chief described the ISSSTE as an institution that symbolizes a social struggle and recognized the work done during the six-year term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, since he considered that recovery and rescue tasks were undertaken; Privatization processes were fought and improvements in services were sought, with proximity to the beneficiaries, and with the expansion of hospital infrastructure.
“We have just left a responsibility but already, we rested last night and this morning for a while,” he said. “Even with all its importance, all the impetus of its emergence and its development, because in the years of neoliberalism, many institutions were abandoned or cut, or semi-privatized, and well, the ISSSTE did not escape it, it was also affected (…) we are going to recover follow-up to the process that has begun,” added Batres. The new director of said institute dimensioned the challenge he assumed and indicated that the next step will be to meet with President Claudia Sheinbaum so that she can tell him “not only the position, but also the assignment.” “The ISSSTE is not only health policy, but it also has to do with pensions, retirements, benefits, housing, supplies, recreation, child care, that is, it is a broad set of social policies that are precisely those that give meaning to the concept of social security, as a vision of broad social policy. “For those of us who fight for a social welfare state, it is frankly very interesting and very attractive what constitutes social security, one of the great pillars of the welfare state, along with education, with work. It is exciting what can be done from this institution,” he said. On February 28, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appointed Bertha Alcalde Luján as the general director of the ISSSTE, replacing Pedro Zenteno Santaella, who a week earlier had He left the assignment to compete for a deputyship in the Congress of the State of Mexico, which he obtained championed by Morena. In the publication of the announcement of his appointment on ISSSTE social networks, users expressed Batres, as the new director of the institute, needs and problems. such as a shortage of basic supplies in medical units in Baja California Sur; support for retirees and pensioners; Pain Clinic and Endocrinology services at the Regional Hospital of León, Guanajuato; labor reform and transparency for substitutes; Yucatán, among others. “Let him see in Quintana Roo that the clinics are falling. There are no specialists or medicines and there are clinics that have not finished building,” said Leydi Maria Alcocer Alcocer.
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