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Mexico City Mayor Announces
Free Home Medical Care for Elderly
Associated Press
Mexico
June 1, 2005
Nearing the start of his presidential campaign, Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday announced free home medical care for all of the capital city's 350,000 elderly.
The program, staffed by 200 doctors, is in addition to a monthly stipend for the elderly that the left-leaning mayor created early in his term, as well as free care in city clinics and hospitals.
"There are many elderly adults who now cannot leave their homes and who need medical attention at home," the mayor told a news conference.
He said the program covered all of the city's elderly people and would start Wednesday.
Lopez Obrador also repeated his pledge to halve the presidential salary to about 83,000 pesos (US$7,630) a month if elected president.
"There cannot be a rich government with a poor people," he said, adding that Mexico's president now earns double that of Brazil's and triple that of Chile's.
Lopez Obrador has said he will step aside as mayor on July 31 in order to seek the nomination of his Democratic Revolution Party. He has led most opinion polls for the presidential election of July 2006.
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