By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Poorly designed, twice as expensive and scantily delivered. Those were the qualities attributed by frontline medical personnel to the Ehécatl 4T ventilators developed by Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) in 2020 to confront the covid-19 pandemic. From its very first day in circulation throughout various public hospitals, the ventilator developed by
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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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Photo: Google By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration will donate much-needed Made-in-Mexico ventilators to eight financially strapped Caribbean nations to treat covid-19 patients, Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced on Wednesday, Aug. 26. The newly minted VSZ-20-2 ventilators — produced through the government’s Juntos por la Salud (Together for Health) program, with
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By RICARDO CASTILLO War of the Judiciaries Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent a clear message to two top prosecutors, Fiscal General of the Republic Alejandro Gertz Manero and Financial Intelligence Unit of the Treasury Secretariat Santiago Nieto Castillo: Get your act together! A week ago, on Friday, July 10, Gertz Manero told a Mexican daily newspaper that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO’s Washington Itinerary Here are a few things we know about Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) scheduled visit to the White House on Wednesday, July 8. Previously to his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, the Mexican head of state will visit two monuments: a statue of Benito Juárez and the Abraham Lincoln Monument. Later,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Unemployment: Mexico’s New Nightmare Over 555,000 Mexican workers lost their jobs in April alone. Those who lost jobs in May are not yet counted in a report issued on Tuesday, May 12, by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS). The bulk of the lost jobs, according to the IMSS, was in manufacturing, including high-employment maquiladoras, auto industries and
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO to Issue Economic Forecast On Sunday, April 5, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will issue a revamped economic forecast for year 2020. In the case of the previous forecast, all figures have been toppled by the financial ravages provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the global oil market pricing havoc. Regarding the previous forecast,
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