“Mexico does not have a scientific medicine for the prevention and care of diseases, much less for the timely care of the population of an emerging pandemic. Today we see it, not even the powerful countries, like China and the United States, have been able to counteract the covid-19, the pandemic came to transform the scientific environment to focus our efforts to identify new forms of treatment, forms of diagnosis, forms of prevention, with predictive models and genetic studies of the human, “said Horacio Astudillo de la Vega, Ph.D. in Molecular Biomedicine from the National School of Medicine and Homeopathy of the National Polytechnic Institute.
“The therapeutic cost is much higher than the preventive cost, this is the transformation that we must make, it is integration where we have to start working, otherwise we strengthen our model of care and prevention, and transform our medical services to serve the population in public health programs we are working in the wrong way, ”said Horacio Astudillo, with a master’s degree in Genetics and Molecular Biology from the Cinvestav of the IPN.
“And when we established a program or medicine where we can do today by genetic prediction those who have the possibility of developing cancer? Those technologies that we already have, we have not been able to bring to the implementation of public health services. And speaking of treatments in the same way, where are the medications or treatments for the population at genetic risk of suffering from diabetes or cancer? Where are our models of care for people who are not sick but for people who do not want to get sick ? It is a concept that must be changed, “stated researcher Horacio Astudillo, member of the National System of Researchers 2006-2018.
That is why it is important to understand the concept of a scientific medicine that we do not have implemented in daily practice, we do not have medicine models where we have a prevention and care project for health disasters that can arise from pandemics, explained Horacio Astudillo, Researcher of Cell Therapy of the Oncology hospital of the National Medical Center Siglo XXI of the IMSS.
2008 and 2016 National Journalism Award.
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