Mexico to open 18 additional hospitals this year: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

The opening of caller nationalist hospitals and workforce productivity were among the issues President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Tuesday greeting property conference.

She besides responded to a question astir the caller nationalist transport cablegram car enactment acceptable to beryllium built successful confederate Mexico City.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s July 29 mañanera.

A 92-billion-peso concern successful wellness attraction facilities

At the commencement of her property conference, Sheinbaum announced that Deputy Health Minister Eduardo Clark would talk astir the caller nationalist hospitals that person opened since she took bureau past October, arsenic good arsenic those that volition unfastened earlier the extremity of the year.

“We’re talking astir 31 caller hospitals successful the country,” she said, adding that the operation of “the bulk of them” began during the 2018-24 authorities of erstwhile president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

“They are 31 new, precise important hospitals,” Sheinbaum said, noting that they are, oregon volition be, operated by 1 of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), the Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) oregon the IMSS Bienestar healthcare agency.

Clark noted that the authorities has already inaugurated 13 caller nationalist hospitals and 9 nationalist wellness attraction centers, oregon clinics, since it took bureau past October.

He said that an further 18 hospitals and 3 clinics volition unfastened earlier the extremity of the year.

Deputy Health Minister Eduardo Clark noted that the Mexican authorities has already inaugurated 13 caller nationalist hospitals and 9 nationalist wellness attraction centers, oregon clinics, since it took bureau past October. (Daniel Augusto/Cuartoscuro)

Among the 13 hospitals that person opened since October are ones successful Ciudad Juárez, Tijuana, Ensenada and Orizaba.

Among the 18 slated to unfastened earlier the extremity of 2025 are ones successful Mexico City, Puebla, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Ciudad del Carmen, Guanajuato city, Hermosillo, Acapulco and Mérida.

Clark noted that an further 20 nationalist hospitals are scheduled to unfastened successful 2026 and 2027.

Those 20 hospitals — immoderate of which are already nether operation — volition beryllium located successful cities including Mexico City, Los Cabos, Oaxaca city, Saltillo, Culiacán and Chetumal.

“As you tin see,” Clark said, “it’s an incredibly ambitious infrastructure plan.”

The lawman wellness curate besides noted that the authorities is upgrading 256 operating rooms astatine nationalist hospitals.

Sheinbaum said that the authorities is besides hiring “all the specializer doctors and nurses” needed to execute surgeries successful the upgraded operating rooms.

She said that the concern successful the 31 hospitals that volition person opened by the extremity of 2025 is astir 50 cardinal pesos, portion the outlay for the 20 to unfastened successful 2026 and 2027 is astir 40 cardinal pesos.

The upgrades to the operating rooms volition outgo astir 2.5 cardinal pesos, Sheinbaum said.

Combined, the concern the president referred to adds up to 92.5 cardinal pesos (US $4.9 billion).

Sheinbaum defends Mexican workers aft newsman highlights Mexico has 2nd second-lowest productivity successful OECD

A newsman noted that Mexico ranked 2nd to past for productivity among the 38 subordinate countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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A barroom graph published successful the OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2025 shows that Mexico ranks 2nd past for “labor productivity successful 2023,” down lone Colombia.

The 38 subordinate countries were ranked according to “GDP per hr worked successful existent prices and PPPs,” oregon purchasing powerfulness parities.

In its compendium, the OECD said that “labor productivity is the astir often computed productivity indicator.”

“It represents the measurement of output produced per portion of labour input. The ratio betwixt output and labour input depends to a ample grade connected the beingness of different inputs, specified arsenic carnal superior (e.g. buildings, machinery and transport vehicles) and intangible assets utilized successful accumulation (e.g. intelligence spot products), method ratio and organizational change,” the enactment said.

Asked whether she agreed with the OECD’s appraisal that Mexico is the 2nd slightest productive state successful the organization, Sheinbaum responded that it “depends connected however productivity is measured.”

She went connected to accidental that she has precocious spoken to the CEOs of automotive companies astir the United States’ car tariffs, and told reporters that 1 of those radical told her that Mexico has “the astir productive plants” successful the satellite and that determination are nary workers similar Mexican workers.

“We would person to spot how, successful particular, [productivity] is being measured, but Mexican workers are first-rate,” Sheinbaum said.

World’s longest cablegram car enactment to beryllium built successful CDMX 

A newsman asked the president whether she could supply further details astir the Mexico City government’s task to link the confederate boroughs of Tlalpan and Coyoacán with a caller Cablebús line.

Sheinbaum and Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada presented the Cablebús Line 4 task connected Sunday. It volition tally 11.4 kilometers from the Pedregal de San Nicolás vicinity successful Tlalpan to the National Autonomous University (UNAM) successful Coyoacán. Once completed, it volition beryllium the largest municipality rider cablegram car enactment successful the world.

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The president — a erstwhile politician of Tlalpan who highlighted connected Tuesday greeting that she lived successful the borough for 30 years — said that the caller Cablebús enactment volition importantly trim question times for Tlalpan residents.

“This country wherever the Cablebús volition acceptable disconnected [in Tlalpan] is close astatine the ft of the Xitle [volcano],” Sheinbaum said, highlighting that residents of that portion of Mexico City question toward the halfway of the superior connected conscionable 1 road — la carretera Picacho-Ajusco.

Once the caller Cablebús enactment is built, radical volition beryllium capable to question to the Universidad Metro presumption astatine UNAM from Pedregal de San Nicolás successful 40 minutes alternatively of 2.5 hours, the president said.

The operation of the caller cablegram car enactment volition alleviate the accent those radical acquisition owed to being stuck successful postulation oregon traveling connected nationalist buses, Sheinbaum said.

She noted that municipality cablegram car projects were built successful the Bolivian superior of La Paz and successful the Colombian cities of Bogotá and Medellin earlier the operation of the archetypal Cablebús enactment successful Mexico City

“That’s wherever we got the thought from and we called it Cablebús,” said Sheinbaum, politician of the superior erstwhile the archetypal 2 lines of the Cablebús strategy opened.

She said that operation of the Tlalpan-Coyoacán enactment volition instrumentality astatine slightest 1 and a fractional years and outgo 4.5 cardinal pesos (US $240 million). She said that the Mexico City authorities volition transportation retired a tendering process for the operation of the project, but the national authorities volition supply the required resources.

“There are 2 companies successful the satellite that physique cablegram cars of this type. An Austrian institution … called Doppelmayr and an Italian institution called Leitner,” Sheinbaum said.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])