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  • Essay / Problems with the Mexican healthcare system - 2555

    According to Mexican citizens, the healthcare system needs further reform to improve the efficiency, availability and quality of medical services provided to the uninsured . One of the biggest sources of inconvenience when it comes to medical care is the long wait for treatment. Patients with scheduled appointments, as well as those in emergency situations, often have to wait hours for care, and it is admitted for those on popular health insurance that a doctor's consultation at a hospital would probably last all day. Ramírez and Mercadao Juárez agree that further reforms must be undertaken to redirect medical treatment toward serious illnesses such as cancer and diabetes, since they are prevalent in Mexican society and particularly among women and children, and the CKD (chronic kidney failure), which causes high hospitalization and mortality rates throughout Mexico. necessary, an example of the CHAN series (nutritional alcoholic hepatic cirrosis) which is one of the diseases in the omitted list for example CKD (chronic renal failure) which is one of the disorders which have a high hospitalization or mortality index in the population mexicana. "As Ordoñez Ramírez firmly stated, the reassessment of the list of diseases covered by the popular insurance program is a crucial step not only to help reduce poverty and the exorbitant prices of medical treatments, but also to decrease the number of deaths due to inaccessible or inadequate medical treatment However, in conjunction with re...... middle of paper ......cala, Mexico February 24, 2014. (Ordoñez Ramírez is a doctor and also. wife of a doctor.) Vance, Erik. “Mexico hails success of health care reforms.” Accessed January 30, 2014. doi:10.1038/nature.2012.11222. World Bank. subsidized health insurance for the poor. World Bank. 2010. Mexico. Reaching the Poor with Mexico's Health Services. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://go.worldbank.org/IYG1NQVPU0* Whyte, Sheila. Sheila Whyte on CBC News panel, “How Mexico's Health SystemWorks,” May 4, 2009. Accessed January 30, 2014. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/how-mexico-s-health-system -works-1.777348.