On Friday, April 25, María Fernanda was bitten by a brown recluse spider in her backyard in Guaymas, Sonora.
Her father quickly took her to the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), where she was not admitted to the emergency room because it was “overcrowded.”
Family members state that they didn’t even clean her wound according to the procedure for such cases, and that despite their repeated pleas for her admission, the staff asked them to remain calm and wait.
The family went to the reception desk up to four times to see María Fernanda, as they saw her condition deteriorating.
It wasn’t until they saw the young woman go into respiratory arrest that the medical staff became alarmed and decided to treat her, but it was too late.
Maria Fernanda wasn’t the victim of a brown recluse spider; she was a victim of a failing healthcare system and the authorities’ insensitivity and indifference, which have left Mexico in the midst of its worst health crisis in history.
Mexico’s healthcare system entered a serious crisis in 2018 when Andrés Manuel López Obrador took power, and it is worse than ever in 2025, under Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration.
Source: Radio Formula
