The elimination of 35 Official Mexican Standards, including for illnesses such as breast, cervical and prostate cancer, will leave the Mexican population without a standard quality of care in public and private hospitals across the nation
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In the last two years, the pharmaceutical industry in the world has had to work at a forced march. The excessive demand for medical supplies and the extreme pressure for the creation of drugs for a virus that was then technically new to humanity impacted the global production line of drugs. This pandemic also brought
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When Mexico’s Previta medical group first came up with the idea of an at-home hospital service five years ago, the concept was primarily geared to treating long-term patients with chronic diseases that required consistent, but not urgent, care. Then covid-19 came along, and the notion of “Hospital en Casa” (“Hospital at Home”) took on a whole new
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A group of teens and young people who have survived childhood cancer and started their own independent economic endeavors got a boost on Thursday, March 3, when the Mexican Association for Children with Cancer (AMANC), led by its founder and president, Guadalupe Alejandre, rewarded three of them with financial prizes. The three winners of the first AMANC
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By CAROLINE BRENNAN It was after the devastating loss of her brother to cancer in 2013 that Mariana Hernández Téllez created the organization Antes de Partir. Her brother’s battle with the disease brought Hernández Téllez to the realization that Mexico was lacking the necessary resources for the most economically challenged and vulnerable children in society, those suffering with terminal cancer.
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By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 14, Mexican Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell announced that one million minors at-risk of contracting covid-19 will receive vaccinations against the virus, a choice affirming the multiple court rulings that have given children in Mexico the right to be inoculated. López-Gatell said the shots against covid would be given to children
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS At age 48, Dante Carbajal Ocampo is not what you might expect in an oncological gynecologist. Unlike the classic stereotype of a jaded, moody, disinterested, keep-your-emotional-distance oncologist (a recent Medscape report said that at least 78 percent of oncologists experience serious professional burnout and depression within their first five years of practice, and 10 percent said that
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By KELIN DILLON After much controversy over the subject, Mexico’s Secretary of Health Jorge Alcocer, former Secretary of the Treasury Arturo Herrera, and head of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) Thalía Lagunas are facing criminal complaints of contempt with the country’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) over their role in failing to deliver life-saving drugs to
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By KELIN DILLON Despite more than 86.8 percent of drugs ordered from the United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS) by Mexico having not yet arrived at the necessary institutions, the federal government and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) have touted the purchase as a victory. According to the Mexican Secretariat of Health, only 25.8 million of 196.5 million
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By KELIN DILLON In Mexico, vital oncological drugs necessary to fight children’s cancer did not arrive over the weekend as promised by the Mexican government, revealed the Association of Parents with Sick Children in a letter. Authorities assured the parents on Wednesday, June 23, that the medications would arrive by Saturday, June 26, but the day came and went without
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