The immediate response show
Weekend with complaints in Tenango de Doria, Hidalgo: lack of medicines. Monday, the director of IMSS-Bienestar, Alejandro Svarch, was already there. Chance or learned reflex.
“We supervise first-hand that free medical care is provided,” said Svarch from the Otomí Tepehua regional hospital. 2,900 pieces arrived for the community, he promised to distribute 37 million to the states.
“There are medicines, they are free and there is care every day,” he assured. Sound familiar? Yes, like every time a public complaint breaks out.
The figures that sell hope
Sheinbaum was not far behind in the morning: “We are at 80% of the supply of free medications”. And he launched a historical comparison: in seven years they built 4.7 thousand beds—more than in 36 years of the neoliberal period—with the goal of reaching 12 thousand in twelve years.
“A health system is not built overnight,” he justified. Sure, but patients don’t live in promised futures.
He highlighted new places for medical residences and accused past privatization. “We believe in something that is the right to health,” he concluded.
The trick is in what they don’t say: when someone complains and they respond with big numbers, ask for the small ones—the ones that are missing today.




