The National Commission of Social Protection in Health provides through Seguro Popular health service coverage, through voluntary, public insurance for persons that are not affiliated to any social security institution in Mexico. The program was implemented in 2004, is operated by the Ministry of Health and is independent of State or local operations. Today it counts with 57.3 million affiliated.
Gabriel O’Shea, National Commissioner of Seguro Popular, on how the institute generates more efficient and transparent resource allocation across Mexico as the country prepares to implement medical service exchange among…
Healthcare coverage has gone a long way in Mexico after the implementation of the Seguro Popular in 2004 and today 57.3 million Mexicans are affiliated to the public health insurance…
Ana Riquelme Francistain, executive director of the MedTech trade group Asociación Mexicana de Industrias Innovadoras de Dispositivos Médicos (AMID), details the trade and tax incentives that have favoured nearshoring from…
Four years ago, Daniel Del Conde left a career in multinational pharma to become the CEO of regional player Grupo Somar. He walks us through the company’s activities – private…
While the COVID-19 pandemic revealed vulnerabilities that sent many organizations looking for ways to bring supply chains closer to home, geopolitical tensions have also encouraged companies to avoid dependence on…
In a move to address medicine shortages Mexico’s outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador last year launched a Super Pharmacy, or “Megafarmacia del Bienestar,” dubbed the largest medicine stockpile n…
The latest stories from Mexican pharma and healthcare, including Sanfer’s purchase of Colombia-based manufacturer Vitalis; Organon Mexico’s new business; the FDA’s warning to Glicerinas Industriales, and a look at the issues,…
Mexican voters will be heading to the polls next June for what will be the largest election process in the country’s history with concurrent state and federal elections. The election will…
The latest from Mexican pharma, including the distribution agreement between Dow and Azelis, Neuraxpharm’s new LatAm subsidiaries in Mexico and Brazil; Landsteiner Scientific’s restructure, and Merck’s plant expansion in Naucalpan.…
Latin America’s patient organisations are today playing a more important role than ever before in developing solutions to the continent’s most pressing healthcare challenges. Given the healthcare gaps that persist,…
Back in Latin America after several years in the US and Europe, Teva LatAm Head and Mexico GM Rodrigo Fernandez explains how the affiliate has adapted its strategy across the…
Mexico, with the second largest pharmaceutical market in Latin America, has a number of strong local pharma industry players. These companies, no longer focused solely on the domestic market, are…
María del Socorro España Lomelí, the executive director of Mexico’s National Association of Manufacturers of Medicines (ANAFAM), speaks to PharmaBoardroom about ANAFAM’s evolving relationship with the Mexican government and the…
Dagoberto Cortés Cervantes, president of Mexico’s National Association of Medicines Manufacturers (ANAFAM) and director of Grupo Sanfer/Hormona Mexico, outlines the expansion strategy that has led the manufacturing group to extend…
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