Overview
- A nationwide mobilization by IMSS staff escalated Thursday when some groups left negotiation tables and marched to close major routes such as Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida Central.
- Protesters advanced a five-point list of demands that calls for assured medical supplies, hiring of more staff, review of pension rules, higher wages and removal of restrictions that limit non‑representative workers from filing complaints.
- The Interior Ministry (Segob) urged workers to avoid blockades and continue dialogue, denied reports of detentions, and federal mediators remain involved while the SNTSS union has rejected violence and urged participation in an October 14 consultation.
- Local actions have grown more confrontational in places like Ecatepec, where staff at Hospital Regional No. 196 staged intermittent road closures and publicly demanded the removal of SNTSS leader Rafael Olivos Hernández for failing to secure supplies.
- Workers say chronic shortages and staffing gaps are harming care—doctors report seeing up to 40 patients and long emergency waits—which raises the risk that continued stoppages will disrupt access to routine services and force quicker political or managerial responses.