Mexico's hospitals are reeling under steep budget cuts by the country'...
MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s hospitals are reeling under steep budget cuts by the country’s new government, with surgery delays for children, reductions in testing and staffing shortages, hospital directors said on Friday, fanning anger over President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s austerity measures.
“We’ve already had to cancel some surgeries,” said Jaime Nieto, director of the Federico Gomez hospital, adding that surgical operations would be delayed by 50% and some 180 outsourced nurses and technical staff had been laid off. Without a quick reversal of the cuts, hospitals will face restrictions on transplants, equipment failures and staff shortages, according to the document. Many of the budget cuts appeared to be aimed at limiting outsourcing and hiring of third parties to deliver services.
“There aren’t enough nurses for the number of kids. ... There are medicines my grandson needs and they don’t have them here. We had to go elsewhere to buy them,” said Arias, 48.
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