Ensenada General Hospital suspends outpatient consultation: Lack of medications and supplies

Another hospital must suspend part of its work due to the lack of supplies and medicines. The lack of medicines is the trademark of the 'Fourth Transformation'. 

Hospitals like the Hospital Civil de Oaxaca and the Hospital General de Tláhuac have also suspended operations for the same problem. The most talked-about case is the hospital in Durango that used disposable cups as nebulizers.

Now it is the Hospital General de Ensenada that will suspend outpatient care starting February 10, 2025 due to the lack of medications and medical supplies.

This according to a report from the hospital's management in a letter addressed to Miguel Bernardo Romero Flores, coordinator of IMSS Bienestar in Baja California.

In the document, the hospital director, José Juan Godínez Montaño, detailed that the suspension is due to the inability to fully fill prescriptions.

Additionally, ambulance services will be suspended due to the lack of insurance policies and the cancellation of the contract with the corresponding provider.

Patients had verbally and violently assaulted medical staff, fed up with the hospitals' inability to provide supplies and medicines.

The hospital also faces problems with the collection of biological-infectious waste, as the company in charge stopped supplying materials for this task.

This is compounded by the shortage of industrial salt for the hydraulic system, which could damage essential equipment like boilers and autoclaves.

The management warned that the critical situation could severely affect the hospital's operation if urgent measures are not taken.

The lack of medicines is a recurring problem that began during López Obrador's government and continues with Sheinbaum. Patients watch their relatives slowly die due to the hospitals' inability to save them.

Additionally, they reduced the budget for Public Health, something that Sheinbaum said was not true, but was disproven by her own data. 

Health spending, which includes resources from all agencies focused on providing that service, will have a real decrease of 12.2% compared to what was approved in 2024.

The Morena government has completely failed health in Mexico. Eliminating the Seguro Popular and leaving thousands of children without cancer treatments.

We are far, far from having 'a healthcare system like Denmark's,' another of the many failed promises of the Morenistas. But they have lied and failed in everything, which is not surprising, but rather saddening and frustrating.