MESSICO’s in trouble
‘Like a time bomb’: Tijuana’s hospitals under pressure and understaffed as coronavirus spreads
“From the time we got our first patient until we were full, it took only 10 days,” said a doctor at Clinica 20...
“We weren’t ready at the hospital for the situation to turn so serious in such little time,” he said...
“This was just like a time bomb accumulating over time,” said Arturo Vargas Bustamante, a University of California, Los Angeles professor who has studied Mexico’s health care system. “This pandemic revealed chronic underinvestment in the public health system.”
Some of those most vulnerable to the pandemic will be the urban poor... in some hospitals, the families of patients often have to supply medicine, bandages and other materials...
Baja California’s governor, Jaime Bonilla, sided with Derbez, and said that doctors in the state’s social security hospitals “are dropping like flies.”
Bad news.
We need them.
That is the kill shot for the US. Mexico border hospitals collapse and thousands of infected head to US for treatment