Overview

• The IMSS General Hospital Zona No. 13 “XIV de Septiembre” in Tuxtla Gutiérrez is set to begin operations on September 14 with 144 beds and 62 specialty consultorios as part of the shift to a unified IMSS regime.
• The IMSS-Bienestar Hospital General in San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, financed by the sale of the presidential plane, will be inaugurated on August 4 after an oxygen delivery issue delayed its opening.
• Federal authorities have allocated more than 2.4 billion pesos across five strategic projects in Chiapas to rehabilitate hospitals, build new medical towers and reactivate 80 operating rooms in 40 facilities.
• In Tabasco, the expanded hemodialysis unit at the Dr. Juan Graham Casasús Hospital opened on July 19, kicking off a 2 billion-peso program to modernize IMSS-Bienestar services over the next two to three years.
• These moves underscore the Fourth Transformation drive to guarantee universal coverage and address decades of underinvestment in the south under the principle that sovereignty and public welfare are non-negotiable.