ISSSTE members must continue traveling to the Family Medicine Clinic 3 in Guadalajara for consultations and their medicines, while the Chapala City Council locates an office to  provide for medical care. 

Editor-  After almost two years without medical care in Chapala, the beneficiaries of the Institute of Social Security and Social Services for Workers (ISSSTE), Jalisco Delegation, now have an attending doctor in the municipal seat; however, there is still no clinic for that doctor to provide medical attention.

That is why Elpidio Yáñez Rubio, Secretary General of Section 16 of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE), sought out the Mayor of Chapala, Alejandro de Jesús Aguirre Curiel, to request a space for a medical clinic.

At the March 3 meeting, the City of Chapala agreed to search out three available locations for a clinic. Those locations will be evaluated by the municipal authorities so that medical services for ISSSTE’s members can be re-established.

Elpidio Yáñez acknowledged the current lack of a hospital to provide medical care and promised to conduct a census of ISSSTE beneficiaries to determine the feasibility of the construction of a medical clinic in Chapala.

Before his resignation in July 2020, ISSSTE medical attention in Chapala and surrounding municipalities had been provided by medical surgeon César Flavio Ibarra Soltero for 21 years.  

Translated by MaryAnne Marble