Overview
- The presidency’s Modelo de Atención Universal earmarks 8 billion pesos to buy 1,000 mammographs and 1,000 ultrasounds and to open 32 hospital units nationwide.
- Senator Enrique Vargas del Villar introduced a bill to create a Postmastectomy Rehabilitation Fund financing prostheses, reconstruction, medicines and rehabilitation for patients with or without social security.
- Deputy Mayra Espino Suárez proposed requiring prevention and early-detection information in the 68 recognized indigenous languages, with advocates citing Fundación MILC’s culturally tailored “Pecho Sano” campaign as a model.
- Senator Martha Lucía Micher Camarena urged a dedicated health booklet for indigenous women and mobile services that bring mammography and other studies to their communities in native languages.
- Officials underscore the stakes: 8,451 deaths last year and a mortality rate of 18.7 per 100,000 women aged 20 or older, with about 25.5 million women over 40 at risk, roughly 90% of cases found late, and treatment costs that can exceed one million pesos.