Zihuatanejo Needs a New Public Hospital

That seems like a very different argument from, “the population of seriously ill people is too low to have providers maintain their skills”. In fact, it suggests that there is a demand and it would be costly to meet the demand of seriously ill people.

The WHO, abandoned by MAGA America, comments the following…

Health systems in action 2024: Mexico

Mexico’s health system has comparatively few hospital beds, physicians and nurses and there are substantial geographical disparities between urban and rural areas.

Access barriers include long waiting times, financial barriers, geographical imbalances and shortages of health care professionals, particularly for marginalized populations.

There are ongoing efforts to address these challenges, such as programmes to incentivize health care professionals to work in underserved areas and expand primary care services in rural areas.

Mexico’s life expectancy at birth was 75.2 years in 2021, lower than the OECD average (80.4 years). The primary causes of death are noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), mainly ischaemic heart disease, diabetes, stroke and renal disease.

Premature mortality rates in Mexico are much higher than in other Latin American countries, the USA and Canada, with kidney disease rates up to 12 times higher.[/i]

It seems that with sufficient local efforts by La Union, Zihuatanejo, and Petatlan there would be opportunities for success.

Such hospital need not try to serve the widest range of medical issues, but could concentrate on those that are responsible for the greatest disabilities and premature deaths.