Ahead of a new wage offer for social security staff, Sheinbaum said a week-long savings review will fund a bigger raise and called workers’ demands legitimate.
After weeks of worker protests, hospital-by-hospital reviews of supplies, staffing and equipment come ahead of an October 14 vote on a 6.8 percent raise.
Open in nine states, they are the first of 500 the ISSSTE will add to a network of 12,750 clinics serving anyone, insured or not, from January 2027.
The clinics will offer free care and 60 basic medicines starting in January, while home visits have already detected more than 568,000 hypertension patients.
Officials credit a shift from private care to the public system: 32 new hospitals and the 2023 IMSS Bienestar network now serving 56 million across 24 states.
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on public health, IMSS-Bienestar, healthcare access, sovereignty, and disinformation.
Inaugurating an IMSS-Bienestar hospital in Tamaulipas, Sheinbaum cast health, education, and housing as rights “and not commodities,” inseparable from Mexico’s sovereignty.
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on a new health city in Oaxaca, student stipends, regulating cell phones in schools, Channel 11, and dialogue with teachers.
Sheinbaum broke ground on a new IMSS hospital in a three-institute health complex, contrasting its 530 beds with the 4,000 built in 36 neoliberal years.
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on new hospitals, the World Cup, migrant protection, youth crime prevention, and U.S. security cooperation.