By KELIN DILLON A large prescription drug shortage is now affecting Mexico following the Mexican government’s dismantling of its system to acquire and distribute said prescription, an issue even the United Nations (UN) says it cannot help to remedy. The Secretariats of Finance and Public Health took control of the national medicine system, which was previously under the jurisdiction of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In an unprecedented effort to inoculate older Mexicans against the covid-19 coronavirus, Mexico City registered a record 81,500 residents over age 60 of the upscale Miguel Hidalgo precinct immunized during a one-week period, city officials announced Sunday, March 14. On Sunday, the capital government completed its vaccination campaign in Miguel Hidalgo, immunizing a total
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As of Monday, March 8, Mexico City will begin its Phase 3 administration of covid-19 vaccines, covering elderly residents of the Miguel Hidalgo and Azcapotzalco Precincts, the Mexican Social Security Institute announced Saturday, March 6. As in the case of previous Mexico City precincts, the order for the administration of the vaccines will be
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XINHUA Mexico could return to “economic normality” by the end of June, with employment at the levels registered before the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (covid-19), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Friday, March 5. Before the pandemic broke out in the country in February 2020, the number of workers registered with the Mexican Social Security
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XINHUA Consumer spending and gross fixed investment in Mexico plummeted in 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic, figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) indicated on Friday, March 5. Consumer spending fell 11 percent in 2020 compared to 2019, while gross fixed investment plunged 18.2 percent last year, according to two separate Inegi reports. In the area
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By KELIN DILLON The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many casualties around the globe, and healthcare personnel, particularly in Mexico, have unfortunately been no exception. Back in September, Amnesty International released a report revealing that Mexico had a higher number of healthcare workers die from covid-related issues than any other country in the world. As of Dec. 21, 2,330 medical
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Negotiations on the controversial personnel outsourcing legislation bill proposed to the Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Nov. 12 have been postponed until February 2021, the president announced on Wednesday, Dec. 9. During an early meeting at the National Palace with business leaders and labor representatives, AMLO said that the details
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Tuesday, Nov. 24, that the government will soon begin issuing cash payouts to the families of people who died of covid-19 to help with funeral expenses. During his daily morning press conference; AMLO said that families that present a valid death certificate verifying that the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Bill on Collision Course The bill to “reform labor outsourcing” sent to the Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) last week is definitely heading toward a collision course in Congress. Mexican Labor Secretary Luisa María Alcalde complied the bill with the helping hand of the heads of the Mexican Treasury (Hacienda),
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By KYLIE MADRY Ventilators Not Saving Mexico’s Covid-19 Patients More than 80 percent of intubated covid-19 patients have died in Mexico, according to a report released by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) late Wednesday, Oct. 21. Since covid-19 hospitalizations began in March, 17,331 IMSS patients have been intubated, the institute reported. Of those, 15,070, or 86.9 percent, have died.
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