For months there has been a pandemic that has caused a change in the lives of millions of people. While it has also shown the importance of health. The nations that invest the most in this area are those that have managed to face the problem in the best way. In the case of our country, the neglect that has prevailed for decades has become evident. At the same time and paradoxically, it has also been one of the motivations for inaugurating what is considered the most modern hospital in Mexico.
We refer to the General Hospital “Tláhuac” of the Institute of Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE), located south of the capital. Although it was planned to be opened in 2021, the situation caused it to be moved forward a few months. Therefore, since December 2020 it has been in operation. During this first stage it has been exclusively for Covid-19 cases and later it is planned to open services for other diseases.
The most modern hospital in Mexico and Latin America
The new ISSSTE hospital has an investment of more than 2,300 million pesos and 35,000 square meters of construction. Although the most striking thing is that it has been considered from the beginning as the most modern hospital in Mexico and even in all of Latin America.
Within their main featuresIt has 400 beds: 250 census and 150 non-census; a 50-chair hemodialysis room; 42 offices; eight operating rooms and 32 specialties.
Due to the health emergency that Mexico is going through, the hospital was started up in an initial phase with 120 census beds and 50 beds with ventilation, destined to treat patients with Covid-19. At the moment there is a workforce of 1,481 health specialists.
As long as once the first stage is operating normally and the pandemic care area is isolated, the hospital will begin the second stage of hospital care. By that time, it is planned to have 38 specialties, a hemodialysis, radiology, chemotherapy service, eight operating rooms, and a blood bank.
For its part, this space was designed to serve a million 413 thousand ISSSTE beneficiaries in the southern part of Mexico City and the metropolitan area, while to date it remains one of the most recent inaugurations in our country .