Gabriel O’Shea, National Commissioner of Seguro Popular, on how the institute generates more efficient and transparent resource allocation across Mexico as the country prepares to implement medical service exchange among the various social security institutes. Beside this step towards universal health care in Mexico, he also reveals how Seguro Popular tirelessly works on improving the quality of its services, with a heightened focus on the first level of medical attention.
When we met with you in September 2014, Seguro Popular had reached important milestones, such as having enrolled 57.3 million Mexicans and having increased the number of interventions included in its coverage from 90 in 2005 to 285 in 2014. What would you highlight as the main achievements of Seguro Popular over the last two years?
Seguro Popular is notably in charge of allocating and distributing financial resources to the 32 Mexican states. These resources are used to hire and pay the wages of the medical and administrative staff as well as to purchase medicines that will be then locally accessible to our beneficiaries.
