Overview
- The Ignacio Zaragoza Regional Hospital No. 25 reopened after its 2017 quake demolition with a 2.435 billion‑peso investment, offering 35 specialties, 376 beds, 40 specialty clinics and six operating rooms.
- Hospital 25 has been operating for about 53 days, reporting 1,228 discharges, 271 surgeries, more than 10,000 specialty consults, 5,312 emergency visits, 55,000 lab tests and 6,700 radiology studies.
- Between mid‑February and March, the government will begin issuing a unified health credential with a digital record to enable care across IMSS, ISSSTE and IMSS‑Bienestar, as part of a phased plan toward universal services by 2030.
- IMSS chief Zoé Robledo said six additional hospitals will open in the next six months, adding 1,484 beds nationwide, complementing the Iztapalapa reopening.
- Construction of an IMSS specialty hospital in Villas del Pedregal, Michoacán, is slated to start in March with an investment above 4 billion pesos, featuring 260 beds, nine operating rooms, 54 specialties and roughly 2,500 staff, while Sheinbaum acknowledged slow progress on medicine supply and credited military engineers for complex rebuilds.