| | |  Editorials | Issues | July 2008 
President Calderón Urges Women Not to Tolerate Abuse
 Presidencia de la República
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| | In Santiago Tlaxomulco, President inaugurates local Family Medical Unit | | |
Almoloya de Juárez, Mexico State - As part of his tour of Mexico State, President Felipe Calderón directed the More Opportunities for Women Event, in which he urged all the women in the country not to tolerate domestic abuse.
In the Municipality of Almoloya de Juárez, the President mentioned the alarming data on women who are the object of intra-familial violence and asked for more coordination from the municipal authorities such as the DIF to help those in this situation.
"I would like to tell all women that it is not right for women to be beaten up at home and urge them not to let this happen. And if they beaten, mistreated or insulted, we are here and they should go to the National or Mexico State Institute of Women," he added.
In this respect, President Calderón said that his government is committed to the well-being of women, which is why it is promoting programs such as Healthy Pregnancy, which provides assistance before, during and after childbirth, or the Medical Insurance Program for a New Generation, which provides all Mexican children with lifelong medical insurance.
At an earlier event, in Santiago Tlaxomulco, the President Inaugurated Family Medical Unit No. 249, which offers services such as external consultation and preventive treatment and will offer up to 100,000 consultations a year.
He explained that at the national level, the IMSS will invest $5 billion pesos in infrastructure for new units, beds and better equipment, which will permit the construction of 18 Family Medicine Units and 14 outpatient units as well as providing new and better equipment for hospitals, and replacing hundreds of ambulances.
“What we want to do is reduce hospitals indices of saturation. We want members to have health services, to find the medicines they have been prescribed at the Institute's pharmacies and update the service," the president explained to attendees at the event. |
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