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Claudia Sheinbaum
President, Mexico

Claudia Sheinbaum's morning press conference, September 29, 2026 | LIVE

📅 Sep 29, 2026 EXCELSIOR 153 MIN 32830 VIEWS 81 SEGMENTS · 13 SPEAKERS
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo leads her morning press conference on September 29, 2026. #conferenciapresidenta #claudiasheinbaum #sheinbaum #mañaneradelpueblo

What Claudia Sheinbaum said

Written from the verified transcript and checked against it. Every figure links to the moment it was said.

Claudia Sheinbaum opened the press conference by acknowledging the impacts of Hurricane Polo in Baja California Sur, noting the zero death toll and the upcoming landfall in Sonora. She then presented a two-year health sector report, highlighting 149 million vaccine doses, 33 new hospitals, 1,535 new beds, and a 25% increase in surgeries. She detailed IMSS-Bienestar's growth to over 60 million consultations and the rollout of the Universal Health Service. Discussing the Ayotzinapa case, she emphasized new investigative lines based on phone records and forensic evidence, leading to 30 new detainees. She addressed medicine supply challenges, supplier sanctions, and the commitment to reduce tariffs in T-MEC negotiations. She also discussed climate adaptation, refugee leadership, and cultural cooperation with Korea.

Key takeaways

  1. Sheinbaum committed to reducing steel and vehicle tariffs and preventing additional tariffs in T-MEC negotiations.
  2. She reported that Hurricane Polo caused zero human losses in Baja California Sur.
  3. She highlighted a 25% increase in surgeries in 2026 compared to 2024, reaching nearly 1.9 million.
  4. She announced that 30 new detainees were added in the Ayotzinapa investigation.
  5. She confirmed plans for a K-pop culture center in Mexico and a Mexican culture institute in Korea.

Numbers and commitments

FigureWhat it refers toTypeAt
0 Human losses from Hurricane Polo in Baja California Sur metric 40:09
149 million Vaccine doses administered in two years metric 46:56
33 New hospitals inaugurated commitment 52:35
1,535 New hospital beds added metric 52:35
25% Increase in surgeries in 2026 vs 2024 metric 52:35
60 million Projected consultations for IMSS-Bienestar this year metric 1:15:38
30 New detainees in Ayotzinapa investigation metric 1:52:24
7 million People credentialed for Universal Health Service metric 1:25:23
330 billion pesos Medicines purchased last year metric 1:28:13
2,500 million pesos Requested by Sonora deputies for new hospital commitment 2:31:27

Chapters

  1. 0:00Hurricane Polo impact and response
  2. 46:56Health sector achievements
  3. 52:35Infrastructure and equipment investment
  4. 1:04:35IMSS achievements and video
  5. 1:11:03ISSSTE achievements
  6. 1:15:38IMSS-Bienestar growth and programs
  7. 1:24:59Universal Health Service and medicine supply
  8. 1:45:02Trade negotiations and tariffs
  9. 1:46:03Ayotzinapa investigation updates
  10. 2:09:48Climate action and refugee leadership

Questions asked in this interview

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  1. 1:25:23What has happened since the last time we presented it?
  2. 1:27:28My question here, President, is what makes it difficult to reach that 100%, and how does your government plan to avoid these problems that people ultimately feel, right?
  3. 1:28:13But if there is a substantive increase, you saw the data I mentioned, more than 100% more medicines sent to health centers and hospitals in 2026 than in the same period of 2025. Why?
  4. 1:32:23Based on your experience, President, precisely within these processes, what advice do you give to those who will be coordinating this work of the 4T coordination?
  5. 1:32:50I want to ask you, after these almost 25 million consultations in the health homes, house by house, what is the importance of this medical deployment?
  6. 1:35:27Have you thought about or detected any entity that requires even more hospitals, building even more beds, more operating rooms?
  7. 1:46:31they were not only the owners of the funeral home, but they had the SEMEFO concession. What is the SEMEFO?
  8. 2:09:48To know if you are working in that sense, not only regarding the El Niño phenomenon, but in general, how are we going to face these circumstances?
  9. 2:18:06Is there progress in the investigation and is there anyone responsible?
  10. 2:19:33Did she give you any information about the meeting, any kind of progress?
  11. 2:22:28Your opinion, President, and would a call be made to these entities to work on this issue?
  12. 2:23:24Could you give us a bit more detail on these two actions?
Claudia Sheinbaum 38:38 ↗
Good morning. How are you? Very well, very good. Very well. Good morning. It's already Tuesday, September 29th. We're already entering October, just three months left to close out the year. Well, today we're going to start with a link-up with Laura Velázquez to see the impacts of the hurricane, and then we'll present Health. It's a report on what has been done in these two years. The Secretary of Health, David Kersenovic, would begin, followed by Eduardo Clark, Undersecretary of Integration and Development of the Health Sector. Then Zoé Robledo, Director General of the IMSS, Martí Batres, Director General of the ISSSTE, and Alejandro Bartz, Director General of IMSS-Bienestar. Arturo Medina, Undersecretary of Human Rights, is also with us, for any questions related to the Ayotzinapa report, the Ayotzinapa investigation lines that were presented yesterday. Well, let's go to Laura on the link so she can give us the report. And Governor Víctor, a big hug.
Víctor Castro Cossío 40:09 ↗
Likewise, she knows she is very much loved here, and I want to express that last night, at midnight, Hurricane Polo passed through our land. And I would only like to thank you, President, for all the support we have had from you and from the federal institutions. They have been very important. The presence of our colleague Laura here not only helped organize the last details to face this storm, but the person I want to recognize this morning is the people of Baja California Sur, who behaved extraordinarily well, followed the instructions, and in the three municipalities the hurricane threatened, which were Loreto and Mulegé, the outcome is zero, President. The people are being attended to. Some are still sheltered. We had no major problems attending to everyone who wanted to take shelter. Around 700 people took shelter and all have been attended to. Today they will surely begin to return to their homes, but we will continue here in Comondú making another tour. Yesterday we did the same, and I must tell the entire population of Baja California Sur, thank you very much for all your support. Thanks to the volunteers, the Red Cross, the Army, the Navy, the National Guard, and of course to you, because the federal commission has been working hard. All the federal institutions are here at the ready, and to the mayors, my recognition for their effort, work, and dedication. To all the people who have helped us, and today we can say that the passage of the hurricane in Baja California Sur has left us with rains, but no human losses, which is the most important thing. The material things we will assess today. So, President, as always, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for all your support. A big hug.
Claudia Sheinbaum 42:36 ↗
Thank you. Thank you, Víctor. Laura.
Laura Velázquez Alcántara 42:40 ↗
Yes, President, good morning. With your permission, I would like to inform you that Hurricane Polo, category 2, made landfall at midnight in the vicinity of the locality of Las Barrancas in the municipality of Comondú in Baja California Sur. At this moment, it is important to mention, President, with information from 6 a.m. from the National Meteorological Service, its center is currently located 105 km from Loreto and 145 km from Guaymas, Sonora. It presents maximum winds of 120 km/h. We expect Polo to continue its movement, President, toward the coasts of Sonora, and that the impact will be as a category 1 hurricane between 8 and 9 a.m. President, as the governor already informed you, we truly want to thank the population because from 3 p.m. people were sheltered in their homes or in temporary shelters. This was very important. The hurricane passed and only left some road flooding at the sidewalk level, some runoff, and waterlogging. There is electricity service, water service. All services are operating in Comondú, in Mulegé, and in Loreto. There are only some effects from fallen trees, branches, leaves, something that will be restored today. And indeed, President, people are going to return today. They will leave their shelters and go to their homes today. Almost 700 people were there, who will gradually return today. A total of 6,827 public servants from the three levels of government, President, attended to the passage of this hurricane through Baja California Sur, 6,827. And finally, President, to inform you that I have had permanent communication with the government of Sonora. They are prepared, they have also carried out preventive actions informing the population of this impact that will occur during the morning, very probably very close to Guaymas. Finally, President, Tropical Storm Rachel is still moving parallel to the national territory, heading into the Pacific Ocean. It is located 430 km from Lázaro Cárdenas. President, the outcome is zero at this moment. We will make a tour for the damage assessment. We will make the tour with the governor and we will keep you informed. We thank everyone and all the Plan DN-3, Plan Marina, municipalities, and mainly the population. At your service, President.
Claudia Sheinbaum 45:56 ↗
Thank you, Laura. Thank you, Governor. And we'll be watching the state of Sonora, which you say will be entering tomorrow morning.
Laura Velázquez Alcántara 46:07 ↗
Today, today between 8 and 9 a.m.
Claudia Sheinbaum 46:10 ↗
Today between 8 and 9 a.m. Understood.
Laura Velázquez Alcántara 46:12 ↗
That's correct.
Claudia Sheinbaum 46:13 ↗
An alert. It enters through Guaymas.
Laura Velázquez Alcántara 46:17 ↗
Through Guaymas, more or less. Yes, that's right.
Claudia Sheinbaum 46:20 ↗
An alert to the entire population of Guaymas and surrounding areas for the arrival of the hurricane. Even though it is category one, it is important to take shelter. Well, thank you very much, and thanks above all to the entire population of Baja California Sur who responded extraordinarily to the call to protect themselves. Thank you. Good day.
David Kersenovic 46:56 ↗
President. Well, let's go with David, please. With your permission, President. Good morning to all. Please show the next slide. Since President Sheinbaum arrived, she tasked us with seeking to have a healthy republic, and that is the fundamental objective at the Ministry of Health. For that, two things are required: prevention to reduce diseases and greater capacity to improve care. And what is required is that they do not function separately, but that both prevention and the capacity to improve care are in balance. And as a result of that, there are a series of practically historic achievements that I would like to mention next. Next, please. One has to do with prevention, the national vaccination campaigns. And here the important thing to mention is that vaccination is universal, it is free for all people, it is timely, and it is within reach of everyone. In these two years, 149 million doses of vaccines have been administered, all of which are listed here. I highlight universal vaccination, which has to do with the different vaccines where the entire spectrum is protected, from children to adolescents, adults, etc. And also to point out that we have achieved important successes in this universal vaccination. Currently, children are protected up to 90% or more against all diseases, and on October 12th the new vaccination week for everyone will begin. Another very important achievement is that we have managed to increase from 60 million vaccines. This year we have increased to a record figure in 2025-2026 of 88 million vaccines. I highlight the influenza vaccine, which is produced here in Mexico, and we apply around 30 million doses of this vaccine annually. Others are, for example, the human papillomavirus vaccine. We are vaccinating girls and boys in the fifth year of primary school to prevent cervical cancer. And we also now include the respiratory syncytial vaccine for pregnant women, so that babies born to vaccinated mothers no longer die from respiratory infections, which is a very significant achievement from the prevention standpoint. Please show the next slide. All public primary schools in the country have been intervened. Almost 11 million students have been reviewed and around 84,000 schools have been visited. Weight and height measurements have been taken for all, dental health reviews, eye exams, and also recommendations on nutrition and physical activity. It is important to point out that sweets and junk food have been eliminated from schools. Next, please. We continue to promote nutrition as a very important health strategy, and some important achievements are that soft drink consumption has been reduced by 2.2%. It seems small, but it is the first time we are seeing a decrease in soft drink consumption in this population, and tobacco consumption has also decreased by 7.1%. Next, please. One of the iconic programs related to prevention is the Health House by House program, which the President conceived, implemented, and which is also the most important prevention program in the world for older adults and people with disabilities. 24.8 million consultations have been attended to in homes. 17.1 million glucose, cholesterol, and triglyceride tests have been performed, and nearly 819,000 people have been referred to IMSS, ISSSTE, IMSS-Bienestar, and Pemex services. These are examples of programs related to prevention that have given a very different approach to managing the health sector. Next, Eduardo will tell you about what has to do with medical care.
Eduardo Clark 52:35 ↗
Thank you, Secretary. With your permission, President, it is a pleasure to join you today. If you could show the next slide, to comment on what has happened in parallel to the first pillar of prevention, the pillar now of increasing the capacity of medical care. In parallel to all the actions the Secretary mentioned and many more. In these last two years, we have made significant progress in growing the capacity to care for all Mexicans who require medical care. In two years, our President has inaugurated 33 new hospitals, completely new or significantly expanded, and many also replacing hospitals that had been operating for many, many years. This has represented an increase of 1,535 new beds that are already providing care to all Mexicans around the country, and nearly 24 billion pesos of investment. In parallel to this, another 45 hospital projects are already underway and are expected to be completed in the coming years, in addition to 75 other projects in planning that will begin next year and going forward in this administration. In this way, we will reach nearly 9,000 new beds between IMSS, ISSSTE, and IMSS-Bienestar in this administration. The greatest growth, at least since we have data, since 1982. Next. Here we can quickly see the 33 hospitals that have been inaugurated throughout the national territory. As I mentioned, six from ISSSTE, seven from IMSS, 20 from IMSS-Bienestar. In all the states of the country, we already have constructions that are either completed or in process. It is worth putting in perspective what this infrastructure growth means. You can see the data on screen showing how construction has taken place at IMSS and ISSSTE since their creation. In the first stage, which is the foundational stage of the birth of these institutions, first IMSS in 1943 and a couple of decades later ISSSTE. For 40 years between 1943 and 1982, the majority of the infrastructure that operates in the country today was created and built, 35,000 new hospital beds. However, between 1983 and 2018, 36 years of the neoliberal period, the population kept growing, growing. Disease kept multiplying, particularly with the arrival of chronic-degenerative diseases. And in those 36 years, only 6,000 beds were built between IMSS and ISSSTE, from 35,000 between 1943 and 1982 to only 6,000 between 1983 and 2018. But this changed radically with the arrival of the Fourth Transformation in 2019, hand in hand with President López Obrador and with the continuity of President Sheinbaum. Between 2019 and 2024, in 6 years, 4,800 beds were built between IMSS and ISSSTE. And it is also worth mentioning that President López Obrador left many hospitals under construction that we have managed to complete in these last years. But look at that difference, almost the same number of beds, a similar number of beds between 2019 and 2024, as what happened during 36 years between 1983 and 2018. And we continue with the support of President Sheinbaum through a historic investment of more than 180 billion pesos in IMSS, ISSSTE, IMSS-Bienestar to keep growing. From IMSS and ISSSTE alone, there will be 7,400 beds between 2024 and 2030. What does that mean? That by the end of the administration, in 12 years between 2019 and 2030, 12,000 beds will have been built, double what was built in 36 years, which was only 6,000. To these are added more than 2,000 additional new beds that will be built for IMSS-Bienestar, the new health service institution for people without social security in the 24 federal entities that already participate in this service network. Next. Along with the investment in infrastructure of new hospitals, we have also invested in modernizing the sector with better high-technology equipment to serve millions of Mexicans. Today, between 2025 and 2026, an investment of 15.8 billion pesos has been made for more than 241 CT scanners, 5 PET scanners, 676 mammography machines, 37 linear accelerators, and 52 MRI machines. Just for linear accelerators, in this 2-year period we will go from having nearly 100 to more than 130, that is, a 30% increase in the capacity to provide radiotherapy. 15% of this equipment has already been delivered and put into operation, and deliveries continue during the rest of this year and the first half of 2027. Next. Along with all this, with more hospitals, with more high-technology equipment, the health sector institutions, IMSS, ISSSTE, and IMSS-Bienestar, have launched an ambitious program to rehabilitate and put into operation, as well as modernize, operating rooms. 650 operating rooms have been rehabilitated, modernized, and put into operation from 2025 to date. In 2 years, 122 operating rooms at ISSSTE, 235 at IMSS, and 293 at IMSS-Bienestar, many of which belonged to hospitals that had never performed a surgery after being built during the neoliberal period. In addition, we have implemented 21 new state-of-the-art surgical robots in these operating rooms that facilitate surgeries, making them simpler, more efficient, and safer for patients. Next. We have also advanced in the delivery of medicines and health supplies to all institutions that make up the IMSS, ISSSTE, IMSS-Bienestar, Pemex, and National Health Institutes network. There is an investment by the Government of Mexico of up to 332 billion pesos between 2025 and 2026 for medicines that have been acquired and that are requested month after month for delivery to hospitals and clinics across the country. What does this mean? That in these 2 years we have received more than 3,182 million pieces of medicines and health supplies, 3,291 different medicines, healing materials, devices, reagents, and tests. And comparing with the first year, the first semester of 2025 between January and August, this 2026 has seen an increase in everything that arrives at health units and hospital centers. 125% more pieces delivered than in the same period of 2025. And I want to emphasize that this has not been the exception for one of the most critical points of the system, the supply of medicines for cancer care, oncological medicines. In this same period, we have received 21 million pieces of cancer care medicines of 221 types of medicines. This in 155 cancer care centers distributed among IMSS, ISSSTE, IMSS-Bienestar, and the national health institutes. It is an investment for cancer medicines of 74 billion pesos, and in this year 2026, the number of medicines that have arrived at the institutes treating cancer increased by 133% compared to the same period of 2025. That is, we continue to grow and make the delivery of medicines more efficient in all points of the country. Next. This comes hand in hand with the most important resource our health sector has: doctors, female doctors, specialists, and health professionals. All the investments we could make in building hospitals, equipping them, buying medicines, would not be sufficient if we do not invest in the training of doctors in our country. Six years ago, President López Obrador, as you can see in this chart, made the decision to practically double the number of specialist doctor positions being trained in Mexico. This legacy has been continued by our President Sheinbaum, and in these years we have assigned more than 56,000 positions for the training of specialist doctors of all specialties throughout the country. And the data is compelling. If we compare the number of specialists being trained in 2011, it was around 6,000 per year. In this administration we are close to 18,000, three times more specialist doctors trained each year. This not only serves us for the present, it serves us for the future of the country, to be able to count on the specialist doctors we need to care for Mexicans in the coming decades. Next. This has been reinforced not only by training them, but also by hiring doctors, nurses, and all kinds of health professionals to operate in health centers, hospitals, clinics, expanded service centers, all the government infrastructure to provide health services to the population. In these 2 years, 22,456 nurses and 26,688 doctors have been hired, who now join the ranks of the health sector to provide services across the entire national territory. Next. And this has translated into three data points we want to share that are compelling: that today more than ever, more Mexicans are being treated in the public sector, choosing to go to IMSS, ISSSTE, or IMSS-Bienestar. Next. Let's first talk about general consultations, the first level of care, the closest to the population when they have a health need. Between 2024 and 2026, if we take the first semester of the year from January to July 2024 compared to January to July 2026, first-level consultations in the health sector have increased by 19%. Today we cross the barrier of more than 100 million consultations in that January to July period, growing from 85 million in 2024, to 95 million in 2025, and now growing to more than 101 million in 2026. This in IMSS and IMSS-Bienestar. Next. The data is even clearer regarding the result of the specialist doctor training strategy when we talk about specialty consultations, the consultations that much of the population requires and sometimes in the past had to wait longer for. In this sense, the increase is 36%. From 23.3 million consultations in 2024 from January to July to 31.7 million consultations in this 2026 at IMSS, ISSSTE, and IMSS-Bienestar. This never would have been possible if we were not investing today in the training of specialist doctors to train them in the hospitals of our country and also to have the capacity to hire them in the public institutions of IMSS, ISSSTE, IMSS-Bienestar, Pemex, and the national health institutes of our country. Next. And finally, this has also been reflected in a notable increase in the capacity to perform surgeries in our country. 25% more surgeries are performed in 2026 than in 2024. From one and a half million to nearly 1.9 million surgeries per year, 350,000 more surgeries than before. And this has been the result of the investment that began in 2019 for more hospitals, more operating rooms, more supplies, and most importantly, more specialist doctors, from anesthesiologists, surgeons, etc., to be able to carry out this increase. As you can see, the data is clear. There are advances, much remains to be done, however, the path is clear in terms of improving infrastructure capacity, equipment, training, and most importantly, the trust of Mexicans to turn to their free public institution when they have a health need, which guarantees their universal right to health. Thank you very much.
Zoé Robledo 1:04:35 ↗
Thank you very much, President. Good morning to all. I want to tell you in these minutes about the advances at the Social Security, in these first two years of the second floor of the Fourth Transformation, especially in what you experience or what you see when you go to your clinic or hospital. Next slide, first I start with what is closest, the family medicine unit, the first level of care. We opened six new family medicine units like this one you see there, which is in Cerrogordo in Ecatepec in the State of Mexico, but also in San Nicolás de los Garza in Nuevo León, La Joya in Torreón there in Coahuila, Jesús María in Aguascalientes, Villa Fontán in Zacatecas, and Pitiquito Puerto Libertad in the state of Sonora. They are very large units, in total between all of them they add up to 134 family medicine offices, preventive modules, dental service, mental health, nutrition, and they also have X-rays, laboratory, and pharmacy in the same place so you don't have to go from one place to another. They also have continuous medical admission, which means they are open 24 hours a day for emergency care. Also, on the next slide, we renewed equipment, as has already been mentioned, and that translates into less waiting and less discomfort. Before, a woman with suspected breast cancer had to go twice, once for the mammography and a second time for the biopsy. Today with these 67 new mammography machines we bought, both are done in a single visit, that is, plus fewer days of anguish waiting for the result. And also with the new CT scanners, a study that took 6 minutes now takes 15 seconds. And we also installed 17 MRI machines, three linear accelerators to treat cancer with more precision and protecting healthy tissues. Next slide, all of this is reflected in serving more people. From January to July of this year we gave 12.6 million more consultations and surgeries than in the 2024 period, that is, surgeries at IMSS rose 36%, today we operate on more than 100 more people every day, and specialist consultations grew 37%, in addition to family medicine consultations which had 12% growth. And the next slide, well none of this would be possible without the people of IMSS. Today we are more than 490,000 workers of the Social Security. In these 2 years, more than 32,000 joined, almost 9,000 doctors, more than 6,000 nurses, more than 16,000 colleagues who make all this work, from laboratory technicians, stretcher bearers, assistants, social workers, to all of them. Thank you. They are in the end the heart of the Social Security. We continue working and above all growing capacity. We have a short video, President, I don't know if we can play it. Thank you.
Narrator 1:07:58 ↗
For 83 years of history, IMSS has grown with Mexico to care for the health of Mexicans. But growth has not always been the same. In its first 40 years, 29,500 beds were built. Then came 36 years of stagnation. In the neoliberal period, only 4,300 new beds. And starting in 2018, we began the largest hospital growth process in its entire history. More than 10,000 beds on the way to 2030. In 12 years we will build more than double the beds built in 36 years of the neoliberal period.
Claudia Sheinbaum 1:08:39 ↗
Look, the director of IMSS sends me a message and tells me: 'New general zone hospital in Navojoa, new general zone hospital in San Luis Río Colorado of IMSS, rehabilitation and equipment of the General Hospital of the Zone of IMSS. Also the expansion of the General Hospital of the Zone in Tula de Allende of IMSS. Well, the General Hospital of Guanajuato of IMSS is practically finished. In health, the new general hospital of Ensenada, the expansion of the General Hospital in San Quintín, the new general hospital of Ticul, and two hospitals in Zitácuaro and in Morelia. In Matamoros, also the expansion of the rural hospital in San Buenaventura, the new general hospital in Saltillo of the Mexican Social Security Institute, the new general regional hospital in Santa Catarina, which already has very important progress.' [applause] We are also going to build two new hospitals that are under construction in Yecapixtla. We are building a new hospital of the Mexican Social Security Institute in Guadalupe, the rescue of the General Subzone Hospital in Chilpancingo, the new general regional hospital of Culiacán. We are building the new general hospital of IMSS in Los Cabos in health. We completed regional hospital number 25 of IMSS Iztapalapa. The care. It's three hospitals. That will be here in the city of Oaxaca. To the people of the capital and to all the people of Mexico. I tell you, let us keep walking together with the pride of our history and the certainty of our future.
Martí Batres 1:11:03 ↗
I hadn't seen the video, uh, I hadn't seen the video. Good morning, President. Good morning, friends of the media. Among the numerous achievements of ISSSTE, I present a list of outstanding examples grouped into five points. First, the inauguration of hospitals, clinics, and offices. Here I highlight the inauguration of the high-specialty hospital in Torreón, Coahuila, the high-specialty hospital in Acapulco, Guerrero, the high-specialty hospital in Tlajomulco, Jalisco. Likewise, the new general hospital in Tampico and the rescue of the General Hospital Carlos Calero, which had been closed since 2010 and we practically reopened it. It is a new hospital. We also built 100 more offices, there are a few more by now. They are all operating in different states of the Republic, and we opened 12 new family medicine units in Oaxaca, in Ochixtlán, Gelatao, Huautla, Tapanatepec, in Michoacán, in Los Reyes, in Chiapas, in Chiapa de Corzo, in Rosarito, Baja California, in Campeche, in Tixkokob, Yucatán, in San Miguel, Tamaulipas, in San Buenaventura, Coahuila, and in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo. As for the construction of more infrastructure, we are currently building the new regional high-specialty hospital of Oaxaca, which is a very large hospital, the new Gonzalo Castañeda general hospital here in Mexico City, in Tlatelolco, the Chercherán hospital clinic in the Purépecha plateau. And this, in addition to the expansions of the Cancún and Chetumal clinics to convert them into general hospitals, and the Pachuca clinic to convert it into a hospital clinic, and the comprehensive rehabilitation of the Chilpancingo hospital clinic. Third, I highlight the incorporation of cutting-edge equipment and technology: six da Vinci robots in various hospitals in the country, five blue rooms with artificial intelligence to help quickly detect breast cancer. There will be 400,000 readings per year, at least. The incorporation of four linear accelerators, which is radiotherapy equipment to fight cancer, four Rosa robots for knee surgery, which is one of the most demanded surgeries at ISSSTE, and likewise 872 units with telemedicine that allows specialty consultations to be given even in the most remote corners of the country. We renewed 486 ambulances, replacing them with 713 new ones, and of those 713, 103 are advanced emergency units, meaning they have equipment to treat heart attacks, cerebrovascular events, and trauma events. Fourth, I highlight the incorporation of the 'The Clinic Is Ours' program. With this, we benefited 633 units this year and 562 units last year. We acquired more than 3,500 pieces of equipment and carried out more than 2,800 improvement works. And finally, fifth, I highlight the national strategy for dignified treatment. This is a qualitative element, it is not an infrastructure or equipment investment, but it has great importance in improving the service. We installed 443 dignified treatment modules in various units. We also attended to 104,000 cases that were attended to and resolved, and we carried out extensive staff training with humanization courses that we continue to carry out and where we must keep advancing. In conclusion, we expanded infrastructure, incorporated more technology and equipment, and improved the relationship with the user. Thank you very much, President.
Alejandro Bartz 1:15:38 ↗
Good morning, President, Mr. Secretary, colleagues from the health cabinet. It is a pleasure to be here to present the achievements of IMSS-Bienestar in two years. It is 2 years of health actions, community participation, free care, and bringing public and universal health services to where they did not previously reach. We have done it in three ways: increasing, improving, and transforming medical care. Next, please. In two years, under the vision of our President, IMSS-Bienestar has increased its productivity from 41 million consultations per year to more than 60 million projected for the close of this year. This is very important, it means 20 million additional consultations in just 2 years, it means more than 27,000 additional daily consultations, 61% more than what was done in 2023, gradually increasing the capacity of our very important first level of care. Remember that this does not happen by accident, it happens thanks to a health reform process that our country has undergone, which has allowed solving the deep fragmentation of public health services. Next, please. It is important to mention that this growth is not the same throughout our country. The entities working under the IMSS-Bienestar primary health care model grew 54% in consultations since 2023. In contrast, entities not adhered to primary health care barely grow 11%. The difference does not lie in management or demographic impact, it lies in the change of the care model, it means free medical care, it means operating as a coordinated network, and it means strengthening the first level of care. When that happens, more health is produced, and the data confirms it. Much remains to be done, but we are going in the right direction under the primary health care model. Next, please. Something very important is that it does not only mean more care, but that the quality of that care is better. Thanks to the arrival of the federalization plan, it not only meant the closure of the boxes that previously charged for medical care, but also that in addition to free care, people are attended to in better conditions. The clearest example of this is 'The Clinic Is Ours', the largest social construction and social participation in health project in the world. Today with 8,638 health centers that have already received resources from this presidential program, it is 9 billion pesos that go directly to communities through these popular health committees. These committees are democratically elected and they invest in priority actions within the health centers. 86,000 colleagues are already integrated into this task. Next, please. This investment also reaches hospitals and the most remote communities. In 2 years, under the vision of our President, we have launched more than 20 new hospitals, from 30-bed hospitals in Santa Rosalía, Mulegé, about 7 or 8 hours from La Paz, to 24-bed hospitals in Maruata, Michoacán, and of course, the great Agustín O'Horán hospital in Yucatán, a hospital with more than 700 beds, the largest public hospital in Latin America, and 12 more units are currently under construction, plus more than 293 existing units being rehabilitated. Next, please. In addition, we are modernizing the strategic medical equipment of our units. This includes, of course, preventive and corrective maintenance at a national scale with the incorporation of new equipment. As you know, the Public Network of Smart Operating Rooms of IMSS-Bienestar, which we have already discussed, new linear accelerators, CT scanners, MRIs, and specialized equipment. This is very important because public health services also provide the most complex medicine, the so-called third-level medicine, which previously only existed in the private sector or in very few units, today it is public and free. Next, please. Something also very important is the transformation that is occurring before the patient enters the consultation room. 938 health routes cross the country month after month, distributing in the 24 states the medicines needed to guarantee care. This is very important because we do it without intermediaries, with guaranteed and periodic supplies. Thus we have been able to distribute more than 300 million pieces of medicines and more keep arriving. In addition, the model continues to be perfected and matured. We have identified 27 high-demand keys, essential keys for primary health care that will be reinforced. We will be sending double these keys to all health centers to guarantee that they never run out during the entire month, during the entire supply cycle. Next, please. Finally, remember that every time a person does not have to return two, three, or four times for the same procedure, every time the diagnosis and treatment occur in a single act, we are improving health and, of course, improving life. That is why we have implemented this single-act model that today already operates at the Women's Oncology Hospital in Mexico City. This model works with explicit time commitments for care. The appointment and assessment we do in one day, the results in a maximum of two weeks, and the start of treatment in less than a month. There are already more than 900 women attended since the launch with our President with explicit institutional commitments. All these women have been attended under this single-act program with explicit care times, because in oncology times are not an administrative detail, they are a vital part of the effectiveness of treatment. Next, please. President, in these two years IMSS-Bienestar has increased, improved, and transformed medical care. More than 20 million additional consultations compared to 2 years ago. 9 billion invested through social participation in health and state-of-the-art equipment, reaching where it did not previously exist. Guaranteed medicines month after month in every corner of our country. This is the commitment of IMSS-Bienestar and we will continue building. If you allow me, we have a very brief video that reviews this pride of IMSS-Bienestar.
Patient 1:23:06 ↗
The care from day one has been excellent from all the staff. [music] I carry them in my heart and I thank you for your empathy. Thank you, thank you for having done what you did with me. Every month I have my consultation and it's free, they don't ask us for anything. And right now, thank God, I am seen by my internist doctor and I don't pay a single peso. I get my appointment with the family doctor. Since they saw that I already had results, they gave me the appointment [music] with the specialist right there inside the clinic. We are very grateful to IMSS-Bienestar for getting to the transplant. It was achieved yesterday and here is my husband, for everything that was the transplant, it was free. The treatments are very good, I have improved a lot. Thank you for the support, for the free medicines. Yes, it is of great help, honestly. We come from Rosario to Tijuana, and she has accepted her chemotherapy very well. The ones she has needed here, they have given them to her. I have a treatment, it's a little bottle. At the pharmacy you can see the price, 70,000 pesos. I come every month for that treatment and they give it to me free, and I will have it for life. The treatment, well the doctors have been very good, very kind, helpful. It's a very good service, honestly. The doctors are very attentive, the illnesses too. Very good-hearted. They are very humanitarian. For me, in my situation, they are the best. They give us hope. We are all IMSS-Bienestar.
Claudia Sheinbaum 1:24:43 ↗
Well, this is the report from the Ministry of Health, IMSS, ISSSTE, and IMSS-Bienestar. Let's go to the questions. Let's see, over here.
Reporter 1:24:59 ↗
Good morning, President. To you and the entire health cabinet. My first question is about the progress on applying the Universal Health Service that we didn't hear about here. Especially, I understand that right now they are in the credentialing phase.
Claudia Sheinbaum 1:25:16 ↗
Yes. Eduardo, do you want to comment that we are in the credentialing of... Correct?
Eduardo Clark 1:25:23 ↗
Of course. Let me tell you, we have three strategies happening in parallel for the Universal Health Service. The first is, as you mentioned, credentialing. We have more than 7 million people credentialed. We are focused right now on older adults, in all the federal entities that have IMSS-Bienestar, and we will continue step by step. We invite any older adult to go to these centers. Additionally, we have a project that deeply excites us, which is the primary health care offices of IMSS-Bienestar, ISSSTE, and IMSS, that will operate under this universal health service model. Why? Because any person will be able to go to be treated in any of them regardless of their entitlement. That process continues, there will be 12,750. What has happened since the last time we presented it? One, the call was already launched on September 14 for doctors, nurses who want to participate, we invite them to register at serviciouniversalud.gob.mx. We have more than 70,000 people who have expressed their interest in participating and the call will continue for the rest of this year. And in fact, today, yesterday, sorry, yesterday was Monday, the calls for the health committees for IMSS-Bienestar, the COSAVIS, to rehabilitate the spaces that require intervention for these offices, were launched. It is a process similar to what Dr. Svarch mentioned about 'The Clinic Is Ours' with community management participation, the committees have already started and will be receiving resources during this year-end to put these offices into operation at the beginning of January. And the third component of the Universal Health Service is that also starting in January we will begin the exchange of services such as emergencies, Code Mother, which is for obstetric emergencies, Code Heart Attack, Code Stroke, continuity of treatment when a person changes entitlement, that continues in terms of what the institutions have been doing so that people can have access to this. We will report soon on the advances, but these are the three pillars for 2027 of the Universal Health Service.
Juan Fierro 1:27:28 ↗
Excuse me, President. Juan Fierro, president of the newspaper tiempocom.mx and Puente Libre MX. My second question, President, is about, well, in the health sector one of the most important topics is the supply of medicines, and here they have already told us about some efforts by your government. My question here, President, is what makes it difficult to reach that 100%, and how does your government plan to avoid these problems that people ultimately feel, right? In hospitals, in clinics.
Claudia Sheinbaum 1:28:08 ↗
Eduardo, do you also want to comment?
Eduardo Clark 1:28:13 ↗
Of course, there are different types of challenges and I would like to mention the advances. The first, and it is administrative, everything, and what really matters is that medicines reach the people who need them, but it starts from the planning of the purchasing processes. Last year, as you can see, nearly 330 billion pesos of medicines were purchased. That means it is the maximum we can ask for and we keep requesting month after month what is needed. But the planning of the purchase is very important to guarantee that suppliers deliver. Many suppliers, unfortunately, who receive a contract do not fully meet their obligations. We ask them for 80 pieces of medicine and they deliver 60, 70, and that affects the supply. But we are correcting that with a very planned purchase, with advance, so that suppliers have the best conditions to deliver. That is why, in fact, last Friday the purchase of generic medicines for the health sector for 2027 and 2028 was completed, which allows us to have many months of advance to better plan deliveries from suppliers. The second, which I think is very important, and which IMSS-Bienestar, IMSS, and ISSSTE are also carrying out, has to do with having digital monitoring systems to guarantee that we have in all clinics, in all hospitals, the medicines that doctors and nurses require. The sector has advanced enormously in digitizing inventories and having visibility to be able to send what is needed and to see what people are consuming. Just at IMSS-Bienestar, by the end of this year, we will have a historic milestone, which is that we will have digital inventories because there will be internet, electronic medical records, electronic prescriptions at all 8,000 first-level points of IMSS-Bienestar. What will that allow us? For the first time in history to know, in the most remote health center in the country or in the closest one here two blocks away in Mexico City, what medicines they have, which ones they are missing, and to be able to send what the population requires. Those are two challenges we have advanced enormously on, but ultimately what we need most is to truly deliver for the population through adequate dispensing in health centers and hospitals, and for that we continue working on logistics from Birmex, from IMSS-Bienestar, from IMSS, and from ISSSTE. Those are the three main components of the medicine supply that we have seen month after month in increases and improvements. We are perhaps not where we would like to be at the end of the day, we still have room to grow. But if there is a substantive increase, you saw the data I mentioned, more than 100% more medicines sent to health centers and hospitals in 2026 than in the same period of 2025. Why? Also because the population is returning to health centers and hospitals. If we have 30% more specialty consultations, 36% more specialty consultations, 20% more first-level consultations, many more surgeries, 25% more, we also need more supplies, and that is what we are seeing, more supplies are being distributed month after month. We have a lot left to do, but we see a growth path every day that we continue to reinforce, and for 2027 we want to be very clear. We are already planning everything necessary so that there is no type of interruption in supply with the change of the year.
Juan Fierro 1:31:13 ↗
President, finally, my last question, and changing the health topic a bit, is about your analysis of the process of electing coordinators of the Fourth Transformation, and what message you could give to those who were not elected in these coordinations, especially on the topic of unity.
Claudia Sheinbaum 1:31:35 ↗
Well, it depends on Morena. I think it was a process where there was a lot of unity and that was very good, and it now depends on the party because there are many new calls, there are municipal presidencies, state and federal deputy positions, where whoever did not achieve victory in the survey can participate as a coordinator. So, but I think until the night I saw how it was, I was busy all afternoon and until the night I asked how it had gone and they told me that it had gone very well.
Juan Fierro 1:32:23 ↗
Based on your experience, President, precisely within these processes, what advice do you give to those who will be coordinating this work of the 4T coordination?
Claudia Sheinbaum 1:32:35 ↗
Well, don't lie, don't steal, and don't betray the people. Thank you. Let's go to this side. Uh, let's see the colleague who hasn't been here for a while.
Rodrigo Muñoz 1:32:50 ↗
Thank you. Good morning, President. Rodrigo Muñoz from NX Noticias. I want to ask you, after these almost 25 million consultations in the health homes, house by house, what is the importance of this medical deployment? And also to ask you, after all these consultations, whether any specific condition has been detected among the Mexican population, whether there is more hypertension, whether there is more, I don't know, some detail that requires attention.
Claudia Sheinbaum 1:33:30 ↗
Yes, I don't know if you have the data on what has been found in Health House by House, the percentage of, let's see if you can pass it to us, it has been very, very important.
Doctor Kersenovic, please pass the Health House by House program, please.
Note that there are 24.8 million consultations in homes. In 17.1 million, glucose, cholesterol and triglyceride tests have been done. It's not the full 24.8 million because in some cases it's the first visit and in others it's already the second time, or the second round is about to be completed, so to speak.
But the Health Ministry, together with the three institutions, does very important work because at the moment it is detected that someone has one of the chronic diseases, they are directed to go to a health center or a hospital in case their situation is much more serious. And there are already 818,869 people who are now under control and who were not under control for one of the chronic diseases. So it is not only a visit for promotion and guidance, but also for directing people to a health center so that they can be permanently attended to in case they have, for example, hypertension, for which you have to take medication permanently. So this is very important, and now the Health House by House program pharmacies are coming, which were tested in the State of Mexico, worked very well, and are now being implemented in the 24 entities, well, in the 32 entities of the Republic in this case.
Reporter 1:35:27 ↗
President, regarding, for example, the inauguration, right? 33 new hospitals, more than 15 beds, from what I was able to detect. I also say perhaps it would be an excess to ask for more, but what would be the next step now? Have you thought about or detected any entity that requires even more hospitals, building even more beds, more operating rooms? I don't know.
Claudia Sheinbaum 1:35:59 ↗
Let's see, play the little video of the beds.
Narrator 1:36:13 ↗
83 years of history, the IMSS has grown with Mexico to care for the health of Mexicans. But the growth has not always been the same. In its first 40 years, 29,500 beds were built. [music] Then came 36 years of stagnation. In the neoliberal period, only 4,300 new beds. And starting in 2018, we began the largest hospital growth process in its entire history. There, more than 10,000...
Claudia Sheinbaum 1:36:44 ↗
Stop it there. 4,300 in 36 years and 10,000 in 12 years. They already increased it by 1,000. We brought 9,000 in 12 years. It's 10,000 new beds.
What happened in Mexico? And besides, let's see if you explain today what you told me yesterday. We met and he told me about the growth in the number of beneficiaries. I mean, what happened? There were 40 years where hospitals were built that together add up to 29,500 beds. Then 36 years where the population continued to grow, and there was also an increase in chronic diseases due to the entry of junk food, sedentary lifestyles, urbanization, or the growth of people in urban areas that changes diet. So there are 36 years where only 4,500... 4,300 beds. 40 years, 29,500. 36 years, 4,300.
So what happens to hospitals? They get saturated. What happens to health centers? They get saturated. And the population, as we have seen, is aging, or we are aging, and the older you get, the more you need other types of care. We no longer need to build so many hospitals and maternal and child hospitals; with what exists, the demand can be met. Maybe in some places where there isn't enough, but what we need more are hospitals for diseases that affect adults and the elderly. So there was a very great abandonment that caused tremendous pressure on health institutions. So what are we doing now? Reversing it.
Add to that that in the 6 years of President López Obrador, 2 years were dedicated to attending to the COVID-19 pandemic. So surgeries, even with everything that was done to include even the private sector so they could perform surgeries, there was still a certain period where attention was focused on a single disease and there was a backlog in other diseases out of necessity. This happened in all countries of the world. So now what we are doing is reversing 36 years and moving forward. That's why IM Bienestar is very important, not to leave this decentralization of health that truly generated many problems, in addition to what happened at the ISSSTE and the IMSS. And besides, why do you think that in these years, since there is more employment, more formal employment, there are also more applications, more people who have the right to benefits.

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@misc{sheinbaum2026_2957305,
  author       = {Claudia Sheinbaum},
  title        = {Claudia Sheinbaum's morning press conference, September 29, 2026 | LIVE},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, EXCELSIOR. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {sep},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2957305/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}