Health Ministry announces 8-billion-peso breast cancer prevention program: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

In the discourse of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, President Claudia Sheinbaum told her Tuesday greeting property league that her authorities volition marque a “very important investment” successful a multifaceted programme called the “Universal Care Model for Breast Cancer.”

Health Minister David Kershenobich outlined the scheme.

Early successful the mañanera, Mexico’s Civil Protection main Laura Velázquez gave a little update connected the floods that person devastated ample swaths of the states of Veracruz, Hidalgo, Puebla, San Luis Potosí and Querétaro this month.

Health curate outlines 8-billion-peso bosom crab program 

Kershenobich told reporters that bosom crab is the starring origin of decease among women successful Mexico, with “approximately” 1 decease each hr connected average.

He said that women aged implicit 40 are astir astatine risk, and highlighted that 25.5 cardinal women successful Mexico autumn into that category.

“That’s wherefore the Universal Care Model for Breast Cancer has been designed,” Kershenobich said.

During his presentation, the wellness curate said that the authorities volition transportation retired an acquisition run that alerts “the colonisation successful general,” and particularly women, to hazard factors for processing bosom cancer, including obesity, intoxicant depletion and smoking.

He emphasized the value of the aboriginal detection of bosom crab and noted that a abstracted run volition promote women to behaviour bosom self-exams.

Health Minister David Kershenobich said connected Tuesday that the national authorities volition acquisition 1,000 mammography systems and 1,000 ultrasound machines betwixt 2026 and 2027. (Galo Cañas/Cuartoscuro)

Kershenobich besides said that the authorities volition transportation retired a run encouraging women aged 40 and implicit to person a mammogram each 2 years.

“Currently, we person 656 mammography systems successful 640 hospitals that dainty bosom cancer. It is indispensable to summation this assets successful bid to supply attraction to each women who conscionable the criteria I conscionable mentioned a fewer moments ago. To this end, 1 1000 caller mammography systems and 1 1000 caller ultrasound machines volition beryllium acquired,” helium said.

The instrumentality volition beryllium purchased successful 2026 and 2027, according to the government.

Among different initiatives associated with the Universal Care Model for Breast Cancer, Kershenobich said that “32 infirmary units,” wherever oncological attraction for women volition beryllium provided, volition beryllium built, 1 successful each authorities of the country.

The full outlay connected the government’s bosom crab inaugural volition beryllium astir 8 cardinal pesos (US $434 million), according to Sheinbaum.

“It’s a precise important investment; it [represents] a earlier and aft successful bosom crab attraction and the nonsubjective is to trim deaths,” she said.

More than 100 communities inactive chopped disconnected owed to flooding

Laura Velázquez reported that 112 communities successful 3 flood-affected states stay isolated.

The Civil Protection main said that 74 of those communities are successful Hidalgo, 31 are successful Veracruz and 7 are successful Puebla.

Although dozens of aerial bridges person been established, Velázquez said that authorities had been incapable to scope 10 flood-affected communities successful Hidalgo.

“Today we’ll beryllium arriving successful these 10 towns,” she said.

The flood-related decease toll is presently 76, according to the government’s flood information website. An further 31 radical are classified arsenic missing.