In search of consolidating the “Jalisco Health Insurance” to provide medical care to Jalisco residents without social security, yesterday the elected governor of Jalisco, Pablo Lemus Navarro, presented those who will lead his cabinet in matters of Health and will accompany him in the 2024-2030 administration, which begins next December 6.
Among his first four appointments, it was revealed that Héctor Raúl Pérez will be the next head of the state Health Secretariat; Salomón Chertorivski will head the Advisory Council for Public Health Policy; Hugo Bravo will return to head the Decentralized Public Organization (OPD) Salud Jalisco; and Andrea Blanco Calderón was presented as the new head of the Social Development Coordination.
According to Lemus, these profiles they will pay Jalisco have a health system that operates autonomously, without handing it over to the federal government; and allows residents without access to social security to obtain free medical care in the different hospitals and health centers in the state.
Héctor Raúl Pérez Gómez, He was former director of the Civil Hospitals of Guadalajara and is currently the director of the Institute of Infectious and Experimental Pathology of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG).
“The Jalisco health system must be a reference and example for the country of what quality, warmth and humanism is in this field that is so important for people’s quality of life,” he highlighted. “In addition, we must maintain the supply of medicines.”
Solomon ChertoviskFor his part, he will head the Advisory Council for Public Health Policy, an honorary body created by the new state government that will bring together health specialists, who will contribute their experience to strengthen medical care in Jalisco.
“This council comes to contribute a grain of sand and help in the consolidation of a system that has undoubtedly given good results. We must join forces to guarantee that all Jalisco residents have access to quality services,” declared the former federal Secretary of Health (2011-2012) and former candidate for head of Government of Mexico City this year.
Hugo Bravo Hernandez, who has just lost the reelection to the mayor of Tepatitlán, will once again head the Decentralized Public Organization (OPD) Jalisco Health Services, after performing this function in the current state government. He was also General Director of Municipal Health.
The Social Development Coordination, which will bring together the Ministry of Health and other agencies such as Social Assistance or Education, will be headed by Andrea Blanco Calderón, who led similar functions when the current governor-elect presided over the Guadalajara City Council.
In the presentation of these members of his cabinet, Pablo Lemus assured that his Government It will consolidate important medical institutions such as the Institute of Cancerology and the Hospital Civil de Oriente. He promised to expand the Network of Regional Hospitals, build a new Women’s Hospital and another in Encarnación de Díaz, without leaving aside the creation of a network of mental care, addictions and specialized care centers for people with autism.