Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus this week presented a free medical program that provides home consultations for the elderly, disabled and chronically ill, as well as their caregivers.
“Médicas y Médicos de Jalisco en tu Hogar” (Doctors and Physicians in Your Home) will target around 400,000 people across the state, although the first stage will only be implemented in metro area Guadalajara.
Some 300 health sector employees have signed up to staff these mobile brigades which will consists of medics, nurses, nutritionists, social workers and, sometimes, psychologists. The initial budget for the program is 75 million pesos.
Lemus said the aim is to assist people who “due to their condition find it hard go to a hospital or health center.” All the services will be provided free of charge, he stressed.
In parallel with the new program, the Jalisco government is continuing to promote affiliation to Seguro Salud Jalisco, the free state-sponsored health insurance initiative for residents without access to a federal employment-based social security program, such as IMSS or ISSSTE. Jalisco chose to opted out of the federal program for the non-insured, IMSS Bienestar, introduced last year as a replacement for the failed INSABI (Instituto de Salud para el Bienestar) program created by created by President Lopez Obrador in 2020, which replaced the Seguro Popular model.