Mexico set out to improve how public hospitals purchase medicine. Instead, it created a shortage of lifesaving drugs.
People protest in August 2020 after being unable to find medications for their cancer treatment due to a shortage of medicines during a visit of Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to a Pemex refinery on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico. The woman’s sign reads: ‘Nothing will stop my fight, because cancer won't stop.
But the government has struggled to find a fix. Instead, it has ended up buying fewer drugs at higher prices, according to Cero Desabasto, an umbrella group representing 80 organizations of doctors and patients, which recently released a 100-page report detailing widespread shortages. Mexico has now turned to hiring a United Nations agency to buy all the country’s pharmaceuticals.
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