Breathe
By Marilú Acosta
Hello, hello, young people. Take out a blank sheet of paper and put your name up to the top and the date. I hope you brought your calculator because you're going to need it. It's a pop quiz today.
Note:
- October to December.
- 13.6 million seniors (age 65 and older) and people with disabilities.
- 12 million housing units.
- 80 questions of the health questionnaire: the wellness booklet.
- 20,000 servants of the nation.
- 21,500 new hires of health personnel (doctors and nurses).
- Recruitment period from October 21 and November 15.
- Bimonthly visits to 12 million homes.
Now write down the questions. You have 10 minutes to solve it and we will check your answers:
- How many houses in total will each servant visit? 600 houses.
- Thinking of 1 minute per question to ask, answer and write it down, how many questionnaires can be filled out per day in 8 working hours? 6 questionnaires.
- How many questionnaires can the 20,000 servants apply per day? 120,000 questionnaires.
- How many days, weeks and months does it take to do the census (apply questionnaires)? 114 days, 16.3 weeks, 4 months (no rest day)
- How many days are there between October 21 and November 15? 26 days.
- How many persons should be hired per day? 827 persons (without rest day)
- How many homes must be visited per month, week, day, to meet the bimonthly visit? 6 million houses per month, 1.5 million per week, 214,286 per day (without a day off).
- How many houses can the 21,500 health personnel visit per day? 10 houses per person, per day (without rest and alone).
Thank you, you may keep the sheet in your backpacks, this exam will not count towards your final grade.
The second floor of the Fourth Transformation does not know the multiplication tables. Why is the Welfare Secretariat doing the census? Has INEGI broken down? Or did they dismantle the Ministry of Health so much that it can no longer even make a community diagnosis. Because they present this program as the great innovation of Mexican humanism, the exclusive initiative of love for the people and with the poor first in mind; but this is called community diagnosis which should already be done by the health jurisdictions. They are inventing the black thread, they want to convince us that this lukewarm water is going to receive some Nobel Prize. Could their ignorance be so great that they have convinced themselves that, in effect, they are discovering Public Health? The bad thing about preferring loyalty to knowledge is to build a government plan on dreams. Perhaps the Nobel Prize he could receive is for literature, because it is pure fiction.
Time is not enough, human resources are not enough, economic resources are enough, because in the end what they want is to keep control of the population by selling them the idea that this government does attend to the "historically" excluded population. As if history excluded and not the already demonstrated inability to govern that the fourté has, through the closed vision of the party in power. It has cost us a lot of money, time, effort and blood, to the whole country, the learning curve of this new group (uneducated and resentful) that seeks to manage the business of government corruption.
That welfare booklet that the servants of the nation will fill, at what point are they going to empty it into a digital system? Because it was promised that the government would be digitized, as never before. Where are the professional ethics? Health questions (medical history) should be asked by health personnel, not by evangelists of the word of the Lord of La Chingada. How are they going to analyze data (Big Data) of 13.6 million people with a handwritten booklet?
As much as they say that the welfare pharmacies will now be the solution to the shortage, how will they cross-reference information between the booklets, the purchase of medicines and their distribution?
The most unexpected thing is that, with a vintage Casio watch, they could save Mexico. Let's not talk about common sense and experts in Public Health, because that would be to think that the Doctor, the scientist, the humanist, really values human knowledge, dignity and the wellbeing of her governed.
The opinions expressed are the responsibility of the authors and are absolutely independent of the position and editorial line of the company. Opinion 51.
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