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Insured, 97.4% of the medicines that health needs: Ssa

Arturo Sánchez Jiménez and Emir Olivares

La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, January 15, 2025, p. 3

The Ministry of Health (Ssa) announced that 97.4 percent of the pieces of medicine considered in the consolidated purchase for the 2025-2026 biennium were secured.

Eduardo Clark, Undersecretary of Integration and Development of the Health Sector, explained in the daily conference of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo that between Monday night and early Tuesday morning a ruling was issued in the international tender to award 73 percent of the 4 1,982 million pieces required by the health sector.

The official highlighted in the National Palace that the purchase awarded so far amounts to 213 billion pesos and that it means savings of 30 billion pesos compared to previous processes, resources that can be reinvested in the health sector.

He assured that another 24.4 percent of the pieces have proposals that will be reviewed and awarded in the coming days.

He acknowledged that for the remaining 3.2 percent there are no suppliers at this time and said that a second round of bidding is contemplated to guarantee supply. To achieve this percentage of supplies without supply, he added, strategies have been designed such as compacting keys and presentations, therapeutic consolidation and making restricted invitations to suppliers.

Clark reported that the needs of the health sector, derived from the demand of 26 federal institutions such as IMSS, ISSSTE, IMSS-Bienestar and Pemex health services, among others, amount to 4,982 million pieces of medicines, with a projected cost of 338 billion pesos.

Likewise, he said that the purchase made ensures the direct distribution of medicines to state warehouses and hospitals, with deliveries scheduled from February 12 for urgent supplies, and from March 15 for the rest.

Regarding the complementary purchase carried out at the end of 2024 in a process independent of the acquisitions for the period 2025-2026, he added that 244 million pieces of priority inputs were acquired, whose deliveries have already been underway since January 5 and They will continue during January and February.

President Sheinbaum Pardo stressed that everything purchased in these procedures “is being purchased directly from the country’s drug manufacturing laboratories.

Remember that in the past, before President López Obrador arrived, most purchases were from intermediaries who were in charge of providing the medicines and distributing them. That was broken in the last six-year term and now, this complementary and biennial purchase, that is, it guarantees the medicines until 2026, is made directly to the laboratories.

On the other hand, the Secretary of Health, David Kershenobich, ruled out the need to activate an alert for the human metapneumovirus and said that the cases detected in the country are normal and should not cause alarm among the population. He reiterated that this is a common virus at this time of year.

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