The facility reportedly only houses 2.465 million drugs at the moment compared to the 3.8 billion pharmaceuticals ordered by the government in its 2023 to 2024 budget
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By MARK LORENZANA Deputies from three Mexican political parties — the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Citizens’ Movement (MC) — are set to file an official complaint with Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) for the expiry and wastage of more than 5 million covid-19 vaccines. On Saturday, Sept. 25, Mexican daily
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican daily newspaper Reforma, on Saturday, Sept. 25, reported that 5.4 million covid-19 vaccines had expired in Mexico and are set to be thrown away. Of the total wasted vaccines, 3.4 million are of the AstraZeneca brand, donated by the U.S. government, and stored in a warehouse of the Biological and Reagent Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex) in Cuautitlán Izcalli, in
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By MARK LORENZANA Even as Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) confidently claimed that in 2023 Mexico is “going to have a first-rate health system, one of the best in the world, universal for all” on the morning of Monday, Aug. 22, during his daily morning press conference, state-run drug distributor Biological and Reagent Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex) admitted
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Dec. 1, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) formalized his appointment of Pedro Mario Zenteno Santaella to the head of Mexico’s Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE), leaving his former position as the head of the state-owned drug distributor Biological and Reagent Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex) available to be filled
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