Up for Global Tender, Mexico’s Purchase of 3.536 Billion Medicines
Eight federal agencies will jointly buy generic, cancer, and anti-infective drugs for 2027-2028, with deliveries slated to begin in January 2027.
Public Health
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One Million Older Adults Already Have Their Credential for the Universal Health System: Sheinbaum
Ahead of a 2027 launch integrating IMSS, ISSSTE and IMSS Bienestar, Sheinbaum also cited student obesity, dental and vision screenings under Vida Saludable.
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People’s Mañanera June 30
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the USMCA, public healthcare, trust in government, public funds, migrants, and the fertilizer plant.
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Xoco’s General Hospital with Top-Tier Equipment, Has First Mobile CT Scanner in Latin America: IMSS-Bienestar
Alejandro Svarch unveils Xoco’s overhauled ER: a region-first mobile CT scanner, ceiling-mounted X-ray, AI microscope and a smart glass classroom feeding live OR video to surgical residents.
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Secretariat of Health Recognizes Indigenous Traditional Medicine in the National Midwifery Committee
The Health Secretariat revised decree adds INPI, the Indigenous Peoples Council and traditional midwives to the new committee.
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The Conversation on Regulating Screen Use Among Minors Must Be Opened: President
Sheinbaum floats a school-phone ban and a sleep-hygiene jingle, citing screen-anxiety research and TikTok use of 2-4 hours a day by kids she met in Manzanillo.
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O’Horán Hospital Begins Free Services Under IMSS-Bienestar
The Yucatán hospital, inaugurated last Sunday by President Claudia Sheinbaum, will serve more than one million people without social security.
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Sheinbaum: Universal Healthcare for All?
Nearly two years into President Sheinbaum’s term, the gap between announcement & real implementation is still wide; universal healthcare cannot be achieved in the current conditions of chronic underfunding.
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Mexico’s Proposed Universal Healthcare System Promises Zero Rejections, But Twelve Massive Exceptions
Universalizing a healthcare system without a budget is not audacious; it is arithmetically impossible.
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Mexico’s Agriculture & Economy Secretariats Pushing to Stop Labeling GMO & Toxic Pesticide Use in Food
Mexico’s Secretariat of Health was to have established mandatory labeling regulations a year and a half ago, but is in violation of the General Law. Critics point to industry interests.
