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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In 2021, Mexico’s national public health sector failure reached record levels as 22 million prescriptions could not be filled
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Retired seniors receive lifetime care at no cost
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE “Have you gotten your flu shot?” Whether your mother is asking you or not, now is the time to be scheduling that jab. Once never questioned, especially by those old enough to remember the horrors of polio, vaccines have been more in the news these days, and often with a negative taint: discovered as not
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Lots of foreigners have worked in Mexico long enough to have contributed to a Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) pension. In Mexico, accreditation is calculated in terms of weeks worked, 500, if you started to work anytime before 1997, when the law was changed to require more weeks from younger generations. So if you worked
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By KELIN DILLON Less than a week after Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) General Director Zoé Robledo announced that Mexico would be hiring 749 international medical specialists to come and work in rural areas of the country, Robledo revealed during a press conference on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 8., that each of these contracted specialists will be paid 53,569
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By MARK LORENZANA Shortly after Mexican health authorities eliminated the mandatory use of face masks in closed spaces, Mexico’s Federal Civil Aviation Agency (AFAC), in an official statement on Tuesday, Oct. 11, said that it is now optional for passengers to mask up inside the country’s airports and on flights departing Mexico. “As of this date (Tuesday) and as long
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By KELIN DILLON According to an announcement made by Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) General Director Zoé Robledo on Tuesday, Oct. 11, Mexico’s federal government will begin hiring 749 foreign doctors to come and work in IMSS facilities in remote areas of the country beginning on Wednesday, Oct. 12. Robledo detailed that Mexico is seeking medical professionals in 43 different
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