The Mexican Social Security Institute opened the National Oncology Coordination "House for Children with Cancer", the first to provide care exclusively to minor cancer patients.
As part of the OncoIMSS program, the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) inaugurated the first office specialized in providing exclusive care to pediatric cancer patients. It will also offer telemedicine services.
At the inauguration of the National Oncology Coordination "Casa de la Niña y el Niño con Cáncer", the IMSS General Director, Zoé Robledo, was present and explained that "there was no specific coordination that dealt with children's cancer, not even cancer in general".
On the other hand, Dr. Javier Enrique Lopez, who will be responsible for coordinating the care of pediatric patients, explained that one of the benefits of this new facility is the application of telemedicine services for the analysis of complex cases remotely.
The IMSS General Director also held the nineteenth meeting with parents of children with cancer, in which he explained that this will be a space for coordination with different areas, such as the Coordination of Digital Services and Health and Administrative Information and the Economic Benefits and Occupational Health Unit, which at the previous meeting reported on the release of the option in the IMSS Digital smartphone application for processing the digital license to grant leave from their jobs to provide care and attention to their children.
