Politics · Mexico · 4 hrs ago
Sheinbaum denies Trump call and outlines plan to modernize health supply system
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum denied having a phone call with Donald Trump after a two-hour delay to an event in Campeche on October 18.
She said she had stayed longer elsewhere and that nothing extraordinary had happened.
At the event, marking work at an IMSS-Bienestar hospital in Ciudad del Carmen, she proposed digitizing and automating public health warehouses.
She said medicines and supplies can remain in storage even when hospitals need them, because paperwork makes requests slow.
She wants a system that tracks supplies and gets them to hospitals faster, using digital tools and modern logistics.
She said a team of young professionals and specialists from Mexican universities would help develop the plan, without hiring outside companies.
Claudia Sheinbaum denied having a phone call with US President Donald Trump after an event in Campeche started two hours late on October 18.
At the event, she proposed removing administrative barriers that can keep purchased medical supplies from reaching hospitals.
Her plan includes digitizing and automating public health warehouses so officials can track supplies and respond to hospitals’ requests.
She said she intends to assemble a team of young professionals and specialists from Mexican universities, including UNAM and the National Polytechnic Institute.
She also said the director of IMSS was absent because he was working with unions on a meeting related to protests over a pay increase.
- Who
- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. Donald Trump was mentioned in her denial of a phone call.
- What
- She denied speaking by phone with Trump and outlined plans to modernize the distribution of medical supplies.
- When
- October 18, 2026.
- Where
- At an event for the rehabilitation of the General Hospital IMSS-Bienestar in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico.
- Why
- She said administrative procedures can prevent supplies that have already been purchased from reaching hospitals.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
An event in Campeche was delayed by two hours, and Sheinbaum denied having a phone call with Trump.
At the rehabilitation event for the General Hospital IMSS-Bienestar in Ciudad del Carmen, Sheinbaum presented her plan to modernize public health supply distribution.
- Event location
- General Hospital IMSS-Bienestar, Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche
- Event delay
- Two hours
- Example of supply problem
- Gloves were in a Quintana Roo warehouse but hospital staff faced procedures to request them
- Planned approach
- Digitize and automate public health warehouses
- Proposed team sources
- UNAM, the National Polytechnic Institute, the National Technological Institute of Mexico and the University of Campeche
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What people are saying
How is it that we cannot modernize the health system? And as President López Obrador used to say: I swear we are going to modernize the entire health system.
I want the warehouses to be first-class, everything digitized, everything automated, everything in its place. If they request a medicine in the afternoon, it should arrive.