2023-12-29 17:28:00
MEXICO CITY (aprp) clinics; For President Andrés Manuel López Obrador it is possibly the largest pharmacy in the world.
The Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer, reported that 1,179 keys were in consolidated purchases (biannual or complementary) and 234 keys were released or purchased individually by at least one of the participating institutions; in addition to 393 keys of healing or instrumental material.
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In total there will be 1,806 keys including medications, vaccines and healing materials. Regarding the biannual consolidated purchase, 4,187 million pieces were acquired, with an investment of 219 billion pesos to guarantee supply in 2023 and 2024 and they consider that it is a saving of 55.1 billion pesos for the government of Mexico.
Birmex, as a company of the Mexican State, is the only logistics operator of medicines and healing materials for Federal Health Care Institutions,” they add in the purchasing graphs.
“The pharmacy will have all the medications and vaccines,” said the federal president.
Jens Pedro Lohmann Iturburu, general director of Biological and Reagent Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex) reported that they chose that land where there were already warehouses, for which they paid 1,400 million pesos because it is 5 kilometers to the east of the deviation. to Tula on the Jorobas-Tula highway, 30 kilometers from Arco Norte and 5.2 kilometers from the Mexiquense circuit.
He also highlighted that the site of the new mega pharmacy is 30 minutes from Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA).
“This location allows the Megapharmacy to satisfy the demand of 70% of the population by land in a period of 24 to 48 hours,” he said.
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The federal government guarantees that the patient will not pay for the transportation of the medication, but part of the procedure is that the sick person must call 5595000911, which is the care center, and must have their prescription so that once it is verified that it is from one from the IMSS or IMSS Bienestar health centers, the process will begin.
The IMSS reported that there are 698 thousand prescriptions issued daily.
President López Obrador stated that it is part of the health system that he wants to leave and that “there is nothing that can prevent it from working.”
“Today we are going to start this process, there are going to be many calls. It is being informed is from the recipes. It is a control, all doctors have to issue a prescription and from that they supply. It is not advisable to self-medicate, you should always go to a doctor,” he stated.
He added that “all this forces us to act more efficiently as public servants because we are exposed to questioning, scrutiny, and criticism, which is important if the pharmacy does not work or if people begin to see that there are no medications.” .
He explained that there will be criticism that he considered good and constructive, as well as questions, which forces everyone to improve the service and be transparent. “And of course without corruption because all this was managed by a mafia.”
The property has two warehouses with a capacity of 94,546 meters; 98 receiving platforms; 97 boarding platforms 102 thousand 323 positions or storage spaces); and 286 million pieces of storage capacity.
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