MEXICO CITY (appro). -President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged that the shortage of medicines persists in the states that have not joined the IMSS Bienestar and argued that it is due to the existence of a “medicine cartel.”
“Ten politicians, because they did not own laboratories or drug distributors, (obtained) more than 100 billion pesos in medicines, which is also why the entire campaign against us for drugs,” he said.
Given this scenario, the president assured that “from the middle of next year we are going to have one of the best health systems in the world. We have already started” and indicated that there are seven states where progress is already being made with the IMSS Well-being.
These are Nayarit, Tlaxcala, Colima, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa and Campeche, the entities where the president said that “90% of the supply of medicines is already over.”
By mid-2023 “we will have doctors, specialists and medicines in all hospitals and free of charge because the Constitution establishes the people’s right to health.”
López Obrador reiterated that these actions of the IMSS Bienestar “the conservative adversaries do not like very much but for us a sign of pride.”
In the case of Quintana Roo also, he said, the problem of the supply of medicines and free care will be resolved, for which a census will be started.