Overview
- The Health Ministry says 3,135 medication and supply keys totaling 4,194 million pieces were contracted for 2025–2026, covering 99% of requested volume at a cost of 297 billion pesos.
- Officials report a recent 96% effective supply of medicines and claim savings exceeding 105 billion pesos in patented and sole‑source drug purchases.
- The strategy cited includes anticipatory planning, interinstitutional consolidation and real‑time hospital inventory monitoring to head off shortages.
- IMSS reports dispensing about 97% of prescriptions this year, enabled by electronic prescribing, while ISSSTE cites its CENADI at full capacity with 48 million pieces in stock and pharmacies at 97% of keys.
- Authorities plan a winter vaccination push of 50 million influenza, COVID‑19 and pneumococcal doses, and say intensive efforts cut active measles cases in Chihuahua to seven after more than nine million vaccinations.