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Arie Hoekman, representative of the United Nations Population Fund in Mexico, accepted that in our country, as well as on the planet, public-private alliances on health issues are “the future, since no one can respond in a unisectorial way to a medical conflict. What is required is a multilateral vision that recognizes the problems and social actors propose solutions to them.”
He regretted that in Mexico there are very low levels of investments in health and hopes that the Fourth Transformation (Q) will bring better orientation of official resources to guarantee access to health for all Mexicans.
He emphasized that “non-investment in health is France Mobile Number List more expensive, since the consequences of poor medical care are always more expensive.”
Broad link of health and poverty
Hugo Flores, general director of Compañeros en Salud, an organization that has worked with pharmaceutical company Janssen-Cilag, shared that 0% of the population of Chiapas lives on less than a dollar a day.
“The poorer you are, the more prone to disease you are. They live in isolated places, have no access to education and have dangerous jobs,” she said. When someone gets sick, he continued, it results in the poor ending up bankrupt, so one of the ways to attack poverty is to give them adequate health services, she mentioned.
“In the mountains of Chiapas, operating health systems is complicated by population dispersion. In addition to the fact that many doctors do not want to work in these regions, due to the remoteness and insecurity,” he commented.
They are committed to promoting OSC
Octavio Avendaño, Sr. Director Government Affairs of the Johnson & Johnson company, declared that the conflicts faced by health Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Mexico are very similar to those registered by organizations in other countries, such as the problem of the financing that results in their poor survival due to not knowing how to manage the resources they manage to capture.
For this reason, this company develops a system of training, advice, coaching and entrepreneurship for CSOs in health, with the aim of making them viable in their work, but also knowing what rules govern them and what benefits they can obtain from private or public bodies.
“The company has corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs throughout the year with first-floor CSOs and the promotion of permanent spaces in education and health, such as the adoption and sponsorship of the “early childhood” space that will open in the Papalote Museum. of the Child,” he said.
The corporation will also carry out a training course for nine international CSOs in health matters, who will have support from 0 specialists to analyze and review topics in all areas, from administration, education, health, image, finance, human resources, etc.
This activity is included in Global Community Impact (GCI), which is the global social impact and innovation platform within Johnson & Johnson that supports the quality of medical services, in order to improve health in vulnerable communities in Mexico.
He declared that in this company there are several social impact programs, such as individual development, promotion of maternal health and promotion of human resilience so that health agents have better mental health.
This last point focuses on improving the living and working conditions of doctors and nurses in order to avoid problems in patient care.
They also manage a project to promote education and bring young people closer to science with educational and entertaining programs and dynamics.
The organizations with whom they will work and train are Friendship House for Children with Cancer, IAP, Maternal and Child Research Center of the Birth Study Group (CIMIGEN), Compañeros en Salud en México, AC, Doctor Payaso, AC, Ednica, IAP , Choose Youth Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, AC, Meeting Space for Native Cultures, AC, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Luis Pasteur Foundation, IAP
As well as Marillac Foundation, AC, Hogar y Futuro, AC, Simone de Beauvoir Leadership Institute (ILSB), Center for early stimulation, La Gaviota, MEXFAM, Special Olympics of Mexico, AC, Operation Smile México, AC, Papalote Museo del Child, Resume Professionals and Services in Mental Health, AC (RESUME), Technological University of Tulancingo and Phomenta.