Military Takes Over Abandoned Hospital

by Maureen Dietrich
16 Jan 15
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The building will soon become a specialized military hospital for northwestern Mexico.

The Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (Sedena) has taken over the uncompleted hospital in Fraccionamiento Rincón de Urías and military personnel have begun cleaning the building which will soon become a specialized military hospital for northwestern Mexico.

On Wednesday, the head of Sedena, General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda and Sinaloa Governor Mario López Valdez walked through the building to confirm its condition.

Since yesterday the changes have been evident. Vegetation and garbage have been removed from Security huts and security gates are now in operation.

Construction of the General Hospital was begun in 2005 but in 2011 it was abandoned after an investment of 400 million pesos.

From afar the building appears old and gray, but inside it becomes obvious the only thing missing is wall plaster and elevator installations.

Rooms have already been divided, connections are ready, the walls are strong and solid, and the entire electrical system is in place, including that for air conditioners.

The new military hospital will serve military personnel and their families from Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, north to Nayarit and part of Durango, stated the General.

And although he said there has been no agreement as to when Sedena will move into the structure, they have already begun to take it over.

 (from Noroeste)

Mexico could edge out Thailand as most popular for medical tourism

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

mexicodailynews.com

 

Although Mexico has challenges delivering a consistent level of care to its own citizens, it might soon be in first place as the leading world destination for medical tourism.

In 2012, the latest year for which statistics are available, Mexico welcomed a million visitors who came for medical treatment. Only Thailand received more: 1.2 million.

Mexico is in an ideal position to overtake Thailand, primarily because of its location next to the world’s biggest source of medical tourists, the United States, says Sergio Rodríguez of private health care firm Médica Sur. The U.S. represents 40% of the world medical tourism market, he says.

“The quality conditions of private health services in Mexico are very competitive and you can find in many cases they are at the same level as the best health institutions in the world.”

At present there are 10 hospitals in Mexico that enjoy accreditation through a program offered by the International Joint Commission. Thailand has 32.

But this country is on track, according to a report in Diario, as a domestic certification program lists 90 private hospitals having medical tourism accreditation, with another 119 in the process of obtaining it.

The most commonly sought after treatments in medical tourism in Mexico are esthetic, dental, oncology, fertility and overweight.

Detriments to the growth of this type of tourism are insecurity and the shortage of both translation services and service providers who are able to speak English, an advantage that can be found in Thailand and Malaysia, according to Patients Beyond Borders, a consumer information service in the field of medical and health travel.

Source: Diario (esp)

Mazatlán to get New Hospital

by Murry Page

2 Jun 14 

mazmessenger.com

 

Last week the governor of the state of Sinaloa, Mario López Valdez, announced that the state’s Congress had approved 2.3 billion pesos ($175 million) for the construction of two new hospitals in the state. The Governor said that a new 150 bed hospital would be built in Culiacán and a 120 bed hospital in Mazatlán. The two new hospitals will be built by private investors under a public-private partnership.

Mario López said the new hospitals would further increase the quality of health care available in Sinaloa, which he added is excellent. He noted that Sinaloa is one of the leading states in the country in reducing infant mortality rates, that the vaccination rate in the state is almost 100 percent, that 99 percent of the state’s hospitals are accredited, and that more organ transplant surgeries occur in Sinaloa than most of the other states in México.

Over the weekend Ernesto Echeverría Aispuro, Minister of Health for Sinaloa, stated that the land for the Mazatlán hospital had been acquired. The hospital land is located at the Luis Donaldo Colosio bypass where the annual livestock Fair is held.

The Minster of Health said the new hospital will be name after Dr. Martiniano Carvajal.

(from El Debate)

Culiacán Hospital to Begin Skin and Bone Marrow Transplants

by Murry Page

2 May 14  

mazmessenger.com

 

Culiacán General Hospital, “Bernardo J. Gastelum,” ranks number three nationwide in organ transplants with ten liver transplants and five heart transplants in 2013. The hospital will now shortly begin a highly specialized program for burned skin and bone marrow for patients with malignancies or cancers of lymphoma.

The National Transplant Center located at the hospital is part of the certified and highly specialized network performing complex procedures. This new addition will save patients from having to go to México City to obtain these two new procedures.

Aispuro Echeverria, Sinaloa Secretary of Health, said that the state will continue working so as to position Sinaloa in first place as a national leader in organ transplants, as a benefit extending to people without social security.

(from Milenio)

Proyectan para febrero inicio de nuevo hospital en Mazatlán

Se construirá frente a Villas del Rey, tendrá un costo de 800 millones de pesos y se contempla inaugurarlo en septiembre del 2015, informa el Secretario de Salud, Ernesto Echeverría Aispuro

Belizario Reyes

noroeste.com

17-01-2014

El Secretario de Salud entregó las instalaciones remodeladasy un vehículo. Fotografía: Noroeste / Juvencio Villanueva.

MAZATLÁN._ Se contempla que la construcción del nuevo Hospital General de Mazatlán iniciará a mediados o a finales de febrero próximo, el cual tendrá un costo total de 800 millones de pesos y se planea inaugurarlo en septiembre del 2015, manifestó el Secretario de Salud en la entidad, Ernesto Echeverría Aispuro.

"Estamos en los procesos de licitación de los hospitales de Culiacán y Mazatlán, estamos a la mitad, nosotros creemos que vamos a tener el fallo a mediados de febrero y empezar a poner la primera piedra de lo que será el Hospital General de Mazatlán a mediados del mes de febrero o a finales de febrero", dijo Echeverría Aispuro en conferencia de prensa realizada ayer en este puerto a donde acudió a entregar edificios remodelados de las Unidades Médicas de Especialidades y una unidad móvil al Centro Ambulatorio para la Prevención y Atención del Sida e Infecciones de Transmisión Sexual.

Agregó que una vez que se ponga la primera piedra del nuevo inmueble que estará ubicado cerca del Fraccionamiento Villas del Rey, cambiará el status de hospital que se quedó en vías de construcción en Rincón de Urías para convertirlo en Hospital Psiquiátrico, el cual es muy importante porque el de la capital del estado está prácticamente saturado y es el único de las tres instituciones públicas de salud que hay en la entidad, por lo que se ocupa uno nuevo con mayor capacidad resolutiva y Mazatlán es el lugar idóneo para ello.

También dijo que los hospitales que se están construyendo en el sur del estado o que por cuestiones de la red eléctrica no se ha podido arrancar como el de Escuinapa, pero se espera que se inicie antes de que termine enero, y con la edificación del Hospital General de Mazatlán, más la ampliación del Hospital Integral de El Rosario y la ampliación y fortalecimiento del de Concordia, este puerto y la región van a tener capacidad sobrada para los próximos 20 a 30 años.

Subrayó que no se hará un Hospital General pequeño en la ciudad de Mazatlán, sino un hospital que se vea a futuro para no decir posteriormente que hizo falta espacio, sin embargo, se está dejando una reserva territorial para en caso de que se requiera ampliarlo se pueda hacer.

Echeverría Aispuro expresó en entrevista que al actual Hospital General de este puerto no se le ha dejado caer, vienen en unos dos meses 100 camas de nueva generación que el Seguro Popular acaba de comprar con una inversión de arriba de 30 millones de pesos.

Señaló además que vienen 34 máquinas de anestesia de arriba del millón de pesos cada una, entre otros equipos.

También dijo que se contempla poner en marcha el programa de teleconsultas, entre otros puntos.

Mazatlecan Receives Kidney Transplant

by Maureen Dietrich on 11 Dec 13
mazmessenger.com

The patient’s friend of 20 years donated his kidney.

A medical team at Sharp Hospital in Mazatlán performed a successful kidney transplant from a live donor this week. It was the sixth kidney transplant performed at the hospital since 1997.

Surgeon Fredy López López said at a press conference yesterday it was the first transplant performed this year by a new transplant team that began working at the hospital three months ago.

The 39-year-old patient Édgar Isidro Félix Cervantes, a Mazatlán lawyer, received his new kidney from good friend, 43-year-old Mario Soto Alvardado.

The pre-dialysis patient is responding well to treatment, the surgeon said, considering his failing health before the transplant and he is expected to recover fully.

He went on to explain that organs can be transplanted from those who have died of cerebral causes but studies have proven live donations present no risk to the patient or the donor.

Félix Cervantes told reporters in 2005 he went to the hospital with a kidney stone where he was advised his kidneys were failing. Since that time, he said, he has been waiting for a transplant.

Since the operation on December 5, he said, he has a normal life again thanks to his friend of 20 years who did not hesitate to donate his kidney.

 (from Noroeste)

Conferencing Technology Installed in General Hospital

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by Maureen Dietrich on 11 Nov 13

The installation of multimedia technology in Mazatlán’s “Dr. Martiniano Carvajal” General Hospital has allowed doctors to take part in video conferences with specialists in other regions of the country. The equipment cost 200,000 pesos and is the first of its kind in southern Sinaloa.

Hospital director, Cruz Alberto Tirado Rojas, said the system helps keep costs down while doctors take advantage of real time conferences to consult on patient cases with specialists, particularly in the fields of epidemiology, hematology, surgery and gynecology.

The next phase, the doctor advised, is to open channels worldwide. They already have connections with an American clinic and a hospital in New York to consult via videoconferencing.

(from Noroeste)