By KELIN DILLON Despite more than a year and a half of reports surrounding the United Nations Office for Project Services’ (UNOPS) failure to deliver life-saving drugs to Mexico in a timely manner, drug shortages and cost overruns, the UNOPS in Mexico was awarded the the United Nations Global Procurement Award – the highest award available in the sector –
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The leftist government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) owes about 10 billion pesos to the pharmaceutical industry for drug purchases and distribution processes carried out by the country’s Institute of Health and Wellbeing (Insabi), and to the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) . “The debt to the industry is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government’s supply plan for medicines and other medical supplies for 2021 only covered what the system required for four months, warned the National Pharmaceutical Institute (Inefam) on Thursday, Nov. 11. Each month, Mexico’s public health sector needs between 140 and 150 million items of drugs and supplies, representing about 1.8 billion items
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By KELIN DILLON Three years after Mexico dismantled its system for the acquisition and distribution of medicines, the country has failed to replace it, resulting in the government only buying 29.3 percent of the 1.5 billion scheduled medicines for 2021, and having only distributed 6.8 percent of what it planned to for the year. According to figures from the Secretariat
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