Healthcare System / AIFA operations

Healthcare System. President López Obrador reiterated that this year, he will fulfill his commitment to develop a high-quality healthcare system. The president highlighted that his government is overcoming the obstacles to achieve this goal. 

López Obrador pointed out that his plan for 2023 focuses on fixing health centers, medical units and hospitals. This plan has already been put in motion in Nayarit, Colima, Tlaxcala, Baja California Sur, Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, Veracruz, Guerrero and Campeche.

On Dec. 22, 2022, during his morning conference, President López Obrador assured that by mid-2023, Mexico would have one of the best public health systems in the world. Nonetheless, according to analysts, this goal is far from being achieved.

In early 2022, López Obrador had already promised that by the end of the year, Mexico would be ready to offer quality care and free medicines for all. He emphasized it by saying that the Mexican healthcare system would level that of Denmark, Canada and the UK, which raised criticism and doubts among healthcare providers. To this day, analysts point out it is virtually impossible to achieve this idyllic health system within the remaining two years of López Obrador’s administration.

AIFA operations. President López Obrador confirmed that the government is seeking to move all cargo operations to the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) to ease saturation at Mexico City’s International Airport (AIFA). 

Since May 2022, airlines and cargo agencies had been asked to consider moving to AIFA but industry leaders rejected the switch, claiming it would increase their costs and would threaten various business models based on sustainability and budget efficiency.

The 2022 positioning strategy for AIFA, introduced by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), mentions that AICM could close cargo activities should AIFA be prepared to manage them, according to El Economista.

Concessionaires and permit holders providing air transportation services would have a maximum of 90 business days from the enforcement of this decree to relocate out of AICM. Passenger flights transporting cargo will be able to continue offering this service as the decree states that concessionaires and permit holders that provide combined passenger and cargo services are exempted, provided that the cargo is transported in the same aircraft as the passengers. The final draft could be published by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the following days on the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).