Puerto Vallarta News

Puerto Vallarta News

Pharmacy health clinics put lives at risk, warns Mexico’s Undersecretary of Health

Pharmacy health clinics represent a risk to health and life because they do not have the capacity to treat chronic diseases, warned the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell.

Questioned on this subject in the morning conference on Tuesday, the official pointed out that these medical units belong to lucrative companies whose main objective is the massive sale of medicines and not the health of Mexicans.

“The basic idea with which these clinics began to become famous was the immediate resolution because you simply have to stop in the clinic and you are attended . . .

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