Puerto Vallarta News

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Obesity will collapse Mexico’s healthcare system

During the inauguration of the XXI International Congress Advances in Medicine of the Hospital Civil de Guadalajara (CIAM) and the VIII International Congress of Nursing (CIENF) at the Guadalajara Expo, the director of the Hospitals of Guadalajara (HCG), Héctor Raúl Pérez Gómez highlighted that, according to the Ministry of Health, obesity and diseases related to it cost $240 billion pesos in 2017, however, they expect those costs to increase to $272 billion pesos in 2023:

"They are going to collapse the health system from the economic and health point of view since, if we consider that . . .

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