▲ The president also talked about the construction of eight high specialty hospitals.PHOTO PRESIDENCY
Alfredo Valadez Rodríguez
Correspondent
La Jornada newspaper
Sunday, July 27, 2025, p. 5
Guadalupe, Zac., The federal government will invest 21 billion pesos to acquire 3,300 medical teams that are needed in the 24 states where the IMSS-Bienestar program operates, President Claudia Sheinbaum reported on Saturday.
At the end of Zacatecas, his third national work tour of these 24 entities, put the new brachytherapy area of the UNCOLOGY SPECIALTIES UNIT of the IMSS-Bienestar in operation in the city of Guadalupe.
The unit consists of a new tomographer and a linear accelerator that will allow more than 80 percent of the types of cancer that are recorded locally, so that the entity is positioned at the forefront of the attention of these conditions.
Accompanied by Governor David Monreal Ávila and federal officials of the health sector, the president recalled that the IMSS serves 55 percent of the population, while the ISSSTE – which serves public sector workers – to 7 percent.
All those who have no social security, that is, almost 40 percent of the inhabitants of the country, are attended by the IMSS-Bienestar or by the health institutions of the States, and the goal is that it is a total quality service, with a view, the president recalled, that in the short term in Mexico there is only one unified public health system.
To do this, the head of the Executive Bran After decades of abandonment by the governments of the neoliberal period
.
Thus, Sheinbaum said We closed the diagnosis today (yesterday): we know that we lack 3,300 diverse medical equipment that we are going to start buying, and in which we are going to invest 21 billion pesos
.
This equipment and modernization plan of clinics also includes the construction of eight new high specialty hospitals in the IMSS, one of which, he recalled, will be erected in the city of Guadalupe, the population of greater population growth in the entity.
During the protocol event, which was attended by hundreds of people and workers in the health sector, there were a group of partners and relatives of Perla Yahaira Ortega Muñoz, 31, a nurse of the IMSS who was deprived of her freedom in the neighborhood of El Orito of the capital of Zacatecas, on July 18.
With banners and tarps with their photograph, their relatives shouted We lack a nurse
. Relatives of other missing people also joined the protest.
