The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Jalisco state government will not sign up to the new Instituto de Salud para el Bienestar (Insabi) health care program, but has inked an agreement promising “coordination” with federal health authorities to guarantee the same rights: i.e. universal health care for all.
Cancer drug shortage
Reports of a shortage of cancer medicines for children at Guadalajara’s public Hospital Civil are gaining ground. The director of the Nariz Roja charity told reporters Thursday that the hospital has run out of stocks of eight important medicines required by children undergoing chemotherapy: Imatinib, Vincristina, Vinblastina, Ifosfamida, Dacarbacina, Daunorrubicina, Bleomicina and Amifostina. The charity has managed to obtain the medicines thanks to donations.
The first Magic Towns Festival (Festival de Pueblos Mágicos) will be held in Mazamitla on Saturday, February 8 and Sunday, February 9.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro has come out fighting after recent criticism of his government’s efforts to clean up the heavily polluted Santiago River, which begins its 562-kilometer-long journey in Lake Chapala and flows into the Pacific Ocean a few miles to the north of San Blas, Nayarit.
The body of the administrator of the monarch butterfly sanctuary in Michoacan was found dumped in a well this week, presumably the target of an assassination.
The Wixárika and Tepehuana indigenous community of San Lorenzo Azqueltán in Jalisco recently celebrated the sixth anniversary of declaring itself an autonomous entity, with traditional after-dark rituals and a pilgrimage to a sacred site.
Jalisco health authorities report that three people in the town of Tepatitlán tested negative for the coronavirus, the new highly contagious respiratory illness that was first detected in Wuhan, China, at the end of last year.
The Jalisco government is taking its time to implement the redesigned verificación vehicular (emissions testing) program in the state.
At the same time Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro has been boasting of improvements in public security in the state, a newspaper report has revealed that last year he applied for a license to carry a personal weapon.
