CNDH Documents and IMSS and ISSSTE Ignore

For three consecutive years, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has documented with forensic precision an uncomfortable reality: the human right to health, enshrined in article 4 of the Mexican Constitution, suffers persistent violations within the two main social security institutions of the country: the IMSS (ordinary regime) and the ISSSTE. According to the reports of activities 2022, 2023 and 2024 of the CNDH, the IMSS led every yea…

The Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) is in a revolutionary process for nursing teaching, through the implementation of an educational strategy that integrates artificial intelligence (IA) and empathic visual resources such as comics, with the aim of strengthening technical training with a more humane, empathetic and close to the reality of right-holders. This initiative will transform learning in the post-technical courses of Social S…

Mexico Evaluate The goal of general consultations of the IMSS-Benestar by 2025 is at least 27% lower than the best level achieved in 2016. The total proposed for this year—50 million general consultations—is actually a setback, reveals civil society organizations. There is no accessible public data on people served, types of care, hospital discharges or other key indicators, which prevents evaluating the actual performance of the institute and i…

Tijuana.- The Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) in Baja California bought anticancer drugs up to ten times more expensive than their usual value, according to extensive research carried out by the media, Animal Político, which documented hundreds of contracts delivered during the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to newly created companies, some of them linked to the environment of the son-in-law of the current governor of Mor…

Due to a series of emotions that cost a patient his life, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) issued a recommendation (56/2025) against the Mexican Social Security Institute. According to the complaint, after carrying out the relevant investigations, it was determined that the lack of cabinet studies, inadequate diagnostic approach and omissions to channel it to the area of oncology, caused the deterioration of the health status of a pat…

Guadalajara, Jalisco. Now it is the operating rooms of the Valentin Gómez Farias Hospital of the ISSSTE that are not functioning because the air conditioning and air purification system have been out of service for a week. Family members and patients report that their scheduled surgeries have been suspended without short-term reprogramming. Last Friday, relatives and renal patients demonstrated outside the hospital to demand better planning in h…