Overview
- Cofepris has suspended implicated outlets and authorities in Michoacán shut 22 pharmacies where oncology drugs bearing institutional logos were found.
- Regulatory operations concentrated near public hospitals with oncology services identified a significant cluster of retailers selling medicines originating from the public system.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum said extracting medicines from public facilities to resell constitutes a crime and ordered criminal complaints against those responsible.
- Officials reported counterfeit medicines without traceability in the private supply chain, warning of direct risks to patient safety.
- Investigations are ongoing under the Anticorruption Secretariat, with an update expected Friday, as studies cite a large illicit market for diverted or falsified drugs and serious health harms documented by the WHO.