By THERÈSE MARGOLIS Nearly 350 people showed up for the American Benevolent Society’s (ABS) abbreviated health fair on Friday, Oct. 22, where personnel from the ABC Medical Center administered flu, pneumococcus, shingles and tetanus vaccines. And while some of the other services usually included in the fair — such as free eye examines, cholesterol checks and triglycerides screenings — were
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Mexican Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela could be the first high-level employee in the current leftist administration to be given a judicial order of dismissal, not just for ignoring a federal judicial order, but also for signing into law an official strategy that does not even come under his jurisdiction, that is the de
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The American Benevolent Society will host an abbreviated version of its annual health fair on Friday, Oct. 22, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Union Church, located at Reforma 1870 in Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec. This year, because of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, the fair will mainly consist of the administration of flu
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Children in Mexico with compromised health will begin receiving covid-19 vaccinations as of mid-October, the government announced Friday, Oct. 24. Speaking during the daily press conference of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Undersecretary of Public Health Hugo López-Gatell said that Mexican children between the ages of 12 and 17 with chronic health
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As of November, the United States will require all international travelers to be fully vaccinated and tested for covid-19, while at the same time opening air travel to vaccinated foreign nationals from 33 countries, including the those in the European Union and the United Kingdom, for the first time since the early days of
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By KELIN DILLON On the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 8, Mexican Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) Rogelio Ramírez de la O presented Mexico’s 2022 budget plan to the Chamber of Deputies under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), featuring no increase in taxes, increased spending in the health sector, and historical levels of public investment.
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s vaccination efforts against covid-19 try their best to move forward, yet another roadblock has presented itself, this time in the form of a proverbial drought in doses. While last week, Mexico received over 5 million doses of vaccines from brands AstraZeneca and Pfizer, this week the number dwindled to less than half of that, with
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By KELIN DILLON While the vaccine against covid-19 has been made widely available to citizens and foreign residents of Mexico alike, obtaining government endorsed proof of full inoculation that allows for foreign travel to places like Europe and Canada has been all but impossible, thanks to failures in the government’s online certificate portal. The portal, which requires recipients of the
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By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 16, Mexico’s Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell said that there is no scientific evidence indicating that the Chinese CanSino vaccine against coronavirus, used heavily throughout Mexico, would require a second booster shot to maintain effectiveness. López-Gatell claimed that the widespread reports encouraging another dose of the vaccine are simply “a large
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