Cuban Doctors Won’t Fix Mexico’s Aching Public Health System
In 2021, Mexico’s national public health sector failure reached record levels as 22 million prescriptions could not be filled
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3,622 Health Workers in Mexico Have Died of Covid-19
By MARK LORENZANA In the last two years, 3,622 workers from the health sector of Mexico’s federal government have died of the covid-19 virus. Among these health workers were doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians and administrative staff. A report by Mexican daily newspaper El Universal on Monday, Oct. 3, revealed that from March 12, 2020, to March 12, 2022, 2,746 doctors employed by three government agencies
Read moreAMLO Offers Immediate Hirings, Top Salaries for Rural Doctors
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, May 18, said that his administration will offer immediate, top-paying jobs to all medical specialists willing to work in rural state-run hospitals. Speaking during his daily morning press conference, López Obrador promised that these vacancies will have the best salaries and immediate hirings, after numerous
Read moreHuman Rights Complaints Soar by 36 Percent in Mexico
By KELIN DILLON Throughout 2020, reports and complaints surrounding human rights violations in Mexico (mainly against the illegal actions of government authorities) increased by 35.7 percent from the year previous, with a total of 252,066 complaints registered by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) on a state and national level. According to the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH)’s
Read moreNew Governors of Mexican States Inherit Debt from Predecessors
By KELIN DILLON The newly sworn-in governors of Mexican states Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Sonora, Campeche, Nayarit and San Luis Potosí have raised concerns about the precarious financial situations of the states they inherited, noting the lack of funds present to pay payroll, pensions and providers. The National Action Party’s (PAN) Governor of Chihuahua María Eugenia Campos made note of a 11
Read moreFloods Wreak Havoc Across Central Mexico
By KELIN DILLON Heavy storms across the central states of Mexico on the evening of Monday, Sept. 6, caused massive floods throughout the region, resulting in the deaths of 17 hospital patients and widespread damage. In Hidalgo, the state north of Mexico City, a hospital run by the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), reported water levels up to a
Read moreCovid Deaths Disproportionately Affect Mexico’s Poor Population
By KELIN DILLON According to a study conducted by the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), nine out of 10 Mexicans who died from covid-19 were people who held essential jobs that did not allow them to work from home during the pandemic. A total of 94 percent of the country’s more than 220,000 coronavirus-related
Read moreMexico’s Own Covid-19 Vaccine Estimated Ready by Year’s End
By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) has announced the nation’s own vaccine, called Patria (or “fatherland), is estimated to be ready by the end of 2021 for administration throughout the country, following the beginning of volunteer-based human trials this month. If the vaccine is deemed successful, it has the opportunity to save Mexico more than
Read moreWorry Grows Over Mexico’s ‘Air Vaccines’
By KELIN DILLON Much controversy has arisen in Mexico over the distribution of “air vaccines” following a viral video of a nurse pretending to inoculate an elderly man against coronavirus while merely inserting an empty syringe into his arm, leading to uneasiness throughout the country about the purported reality of Mexico’s vaccination process. Though the empty vaccine appeared to be
Read moreQR Codes Could Solve Mexico’s Falsified Covid Results Problem
By KELIN DILLON Following reports of falsified coronavirus test results, particularly among international travelers, the Mexican Council of Medical Diagnostic Companies (Comed) said it is working on a new initiative with associated laboratories to adopt a QR code system in hopes of increasing the reliability of test results. Fake test results for purchase have been on the rise since the
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