Yes, in the short year that Buenrostro was in the Mayor’s Office of the Treasury, he dismantled the medicine purchase and distribution system and left in its place a bottleneck that, under the pretext of ending corruption, has generated chaos and a lack of transparency, but above all a negligence that has resulted in the death and illness of thousands of Mexicans.
The federal government has accused that the demand for cancer drugs is nothing more than a media campaign against it; well, the “aviator” Alcocer in a morning dared to declare that the interest in cancer drugs is valid, but exaggerated.
The origin…
The problem of the shortage of medicines began in the transition, at the end of 2018, as a result of the fact that in the so-called 4T it was decided that all government purchases would be made in the Mayor’s Office of the Treasury, a position held by the now called “hand of iron” of the SAT, Raquel Buenrostro.
Before, it is worth remembering, the IMSS was in charge of buying the medicines and it did so not only for its hospitals and clinics, but also for the ISSSTE, Pemex, the Secretaries of National Defense and the Navy, the 23 hospitals and national institutes. of the federal Ministry of Health, as well as for the States that decided to join this consolidated purchase.
Medicines, vaccines, healing materials, etc., were bought a YEAR IN ADVANCE to ensure supply. Just as you are reading it, a year earlier.
Having started as a Finance advisor at Pemex in August 2010, Buenrostro passed unnoticed by the SEP and Tourism; in the 4T call she concentrated all the power of purchases and contracts.
However, upon his arrival as Senior Official in the Treasury, he proposed, and boy did he succeed, to dismantle the drug supply chain without specifying the system that would replace it, hastily and with an erroneous focus on austerity, and that is how they began problems of drug shortages immediately.
Atole with the finger
At the beginning of 2019, Buenrostro announced that a consolidated purchase of medicines would be made for the second half of that year (antiretrovirals, vaccines and generic medicines); This first tender turned out to be a failure, as 1,923 keys (62% of the tender) were declared void.
Buenrostro resigned in December 2019 to take charge of the SAT.
