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ISSSTE Opens Modern Operating Room at Cabo San Lucas Clinic

The activation marks the latest phase in ISSSTE’s effort to modernize 80 operating rooms across Mexico under the ‘Cuarto Pilar de la 4T’ health agenda.

Overview

  • ISSSTE Director Martí Batres Guadarrama and medical director Miguel Ángel Meléndez led the activation of the new suite at the Clínica Hospital Cabo San Lucas on July 31.
  • The first procedure was a complication-free outpatient inguinal hernioplasty using synthetic mesh on a 63-year-old male patient.
  • Surgeons Emanuel Hernández Sánchez and Rubén Paredes Cano partnered with anesthesiologist Grecia Hernández Díaz de León for the clinic’s inaugural surgery.
  • The upgraded operating room features advanced surgical equipment and trained staff to deliver timely ambulatory care to over 40,000 local rightsholders.
  • This follows the inauguration of a surgical suite in Córdoba on July 24, advancing a plan to benefit two million rightsholders nationwide.