ANÁLISIS PRESUPUESTARIO DEL PROGRAMA DE MATERNIDAD GRATUITA Y ATENCIÓN AL I NFANTE, CORRESPONDIENTE AL ÁREA DE SALUD No . 1 Y SU INCIDENCIA EN LA PRESTACIÓN DE SERVICIOS EN EL CANTÓN PORTOVIEJO”. PERIODO 2003 – 2005

Abstract

The 19 of Julio of the year 2002, the Ministry of Public Health, and the Mayors of the country, they subscribed the Agreements of Administration for the execution of the Law of Gratuitous Maternity and Attention to the Infant. In this context, this Law, finances a package of benefits in health, for women and children’s smaller than five years of age, that which allows a bigger access to the services of health, guaranteeing the gratuitousness and obligations of the attention. With this Law, intends a form different from the administration of the services of health, in the one which, it is involved the Local Government directly (Municipality of Portoviejo) and the civic participation in the administration of the resources jointly with the Ministry of Public Health, through the Areas of Health. The Law grants an important list to the Local Government, to diminish the deaths of women and children for avoidable causes, of this way is involved in the promotion of the sexual and reproductive health, and in the generation of mechanisms for the transport of obstetric and pediatric emergencies. The community participation is incorporated by the Law, to guarantee that the necessities and the population's demands are channelled through the Committee of Users, considering an important space for emponderarse and to diffuse the proposed objectives. To put into operation the Law of the Program of Gratuitous Maternity and Attention to the Infant, they have conformed to the Committees of Administration of the Solidary Fund of Health, the same ones that are cooparticipación instances among the Municipality, the Ministry of Public Health and the Civil Society The analysis of the budget of the Program of Gratuitous Maternity and Attention to the Childhood seek to look for the incidence in the benefit of the services in the Canton Portoviejo, by means of the use of technical necessary that allow to have budgetary real data, in order to strategies that involve a better and bigger action of the program to settle down.