The IMSS reported a significant shortfall in prescription fulfillment in 2024, highlighting ongoing challenges in the healthcare system exacerbated by budget cuts, personnel shortages, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
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The Dec. 29 NYT report detailed a purported fentanyl production laboratory in Culiacán, Sinaloa, that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbau, has since characterized as “not credible”
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The new appointees join the 17 individuals Sheinbaum has already named to her presidential cabinet
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The Megapharmacy reportedly only delivered 648 of 7,593 requested prescription medications between December 29, 2023 to March 20, 2024, with each prescription taking up to 65 days to fulfill
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The contracts in question partially pertain to Grupo de Seguridad Privada Camsa, SA de CV, the company tasked with monitoring the INM’s Ciudad Juárez where 40 migrants died in a fire back in March 2023
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Nearshoring picked up steam when the covid-19 pandemic exposed the considerable risks inherent in the supply chains for numerous critically important products and intermediate goods for which there was often a single supplier
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The Superior Audit of the Federation purports that the Mexican Social Security Institute handed out more than a billion pesos to PM Soluciones Group for technical services that were never rendered
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Three years after Mexico announced the development of its own covid-19 vaccine, Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology Director María Elena Álvarez-Buylla revealed that the “Patria” vaccine is finally ready and has been approved for inoculation against covid-19
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Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies — the majority bloc of which is composed of legislators from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist ruling party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) — approved a reform to the General Health Law, which fast-tracked the closure of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing
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Many Mexican physicians are opposed to the contracting of the Cuban doctors, who are not licensed to practice in Mexico and who receive nearly double their salary for comparable positions
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