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 THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On average, at least 18 Mexican men die each day from prostate cancer, the second-biggest killer of adult men in the country, according to Roberto Cortez Betancourt, head of urology of Mexico’s Centro Médico Nacional 20 de Noviembre. “In many of these cases, the deaths could be prevented through early detection and treatment,” he said during a
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