The 2025 Economic Package, delivered on Friday, November 15th by the Ministry of Finance to the Lower House of Congress, contemplates allocating 66.6 billion pesos to the Ministry of Health.
In the midst of the worst shortage of medicines and health supplies ever recorded in Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum’s government proposes cutting 34% of the Ministry of Health’s budget for next year.
According to the Economic Package 2025 delivered on Friday by the head of the Ministry of Finance, Rogelio Ramírez de la O, to the Chamber of Representatives, it is expected to allocate 66.6 billion pesos to the health sector, that is, 34.4 billion pesos less than in 2024.
For this Branch 12, health care, vaccination, maternal, sexual, and reproductive health, addiction prevention, obesity, and diabetes control, as well as epidemiological surveillance and prevention and care of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, are indicated as priority programs, however, minimal increases are contemplated in the budgets.
The same thing for the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) and the Institute of Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE). For these institutes, an increase of only 4.7% and 6%, respectively, is proposed by the Sheinbaum administration.
With information from Latinus
