As part of the State of Mexico’s “Plan Oriente – Love is Repaid with Love,” President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo inaugurated the IMSS Family Medicine Unit No. 93 “Cerro Gordo” in Ecatepec, a project that represented an investment of 435 million pesos and will benefit more than 350,000 beneficiaries.
During the inauguration, Sheinbaum reaffirmed her commitment to transforming the public health system: “We are persistent, insistent that the public health system must be the best in the country, and we can achieve it thanks to the doctors and nurses who dedicate their lives to caring for others, as they demonstrated during the pandemic.”
The president announced that the goal is to achieve universal medical care by 2027, so that any person, with or without social security, can receive services at IMSS, ISSSTE, or IMSS-Bienestar without distinction. She also recalled that Plan Oriente will benefit 10 million residents in Chalco, Chicoloapan, Chimalhuacán, Ecatepec, Ixtapaluca, Nezahualcóyotl, La Paz, Texcoco, Tlalnepantla, and Valle de Chalco.
In Ecatepec, in addition to the new clinic, projects include the construction of a Child Education and Care Center (CECI), a new campus of the Rosario Castellanos University, and a significant investment to guarantee water supply and prevent flooding. Sheinbaum emphasized that this effort is a recognition of the work of the eastern region of the State of Mexico: “What we can give back is the love that the State of Mexico has given to the nation.”
Health Secretary David Kershenobich highlighted that this unit strengthens prevention and primary care, while IMSS Director Zoé Robledo detailed that the center has 51 consulting rooms—34 for specialists, 13 for specialized nursing, and four for dentistry—as well as X-rays, CT scans, electrocardiograph, laboratory, and pharmacy. Governor Delfina Gómez Álvarez also announced an additional investment of 12.4 billion pesos to build four general hospitals and six new Family Medicine Units in the region.
