Nuevo León Governor Announces Bonuses for Health Workers

Governor Samuel García Sepúlveda decorated health workers for seniority and announced bonus payments of up to 140,000 pesos. He pledged to continue investing in health and education to maintain universal health coverage.


Nuevo León Governor Announces Bonuses for Health Workers

The governor of Nuevo León, Samuel García Sepúlveda, decorated health workers for their seniority and announced that they will receive a financial bonus, with some up to 140,000 pesos for 55 years of service. "We are a state that maintains a commitment to this incentive, one of the few that makes this contribution to workers... we also provide an extra vacation period... about 7 million pesos is a sum contributed by the federal government, and another figure from the state. In total, it is 15 million pesos," the official detailed. The governor also announced that he will continue to invest significantly in health and education to maintain universal health coverage, "with or without a budget" next year. "The first and only state that has universal health coverage," said the governor. "We continue to appear in first place in all categories, something that had never happened... we were surprised that we came in first in Security, Income, Education... but there is one in which we were most proud to boast in the Report, and that is Health, that is conclusive. The economic incentives will range from 30,000 to 140,000 pesos. "We are going to give them a bonus, it is not in the Law, but we are going to give it to them because they deserve it. The Nuevo Leónese, which is what I am in charge of, lives better than 4 or 5 years ago."