Denmark moves away

Few things reflect a country like the causes of our deaths. Mexico is the OECD country with the highest number of deaths from preventable and treatable diseases. The gap with the second-worst (Latvia) is enormous, and with Denmark, just to use the Obradorist reference, abysmal. While in Mexico, 435 per 100,000 inhabitants die annually from preventable causes, in Latvia the number is 364, and in Denmark, 120. If we look at treatable diseases, in Mexico, 230 per 100,000 inhabitants die due to lack of treatment, while in Denmark the figure is 54. This is the true state of our healthcare system. Everything else is nonsense.

The President's contemptuous response to Sheinbaum's response to the marches organized by Red Nose demanding cancer medicine is outrageous. Monthly promises fall flat when we look at these figures. It's evident that there is a very serious problem of care and a lack of medicines. Deaths from preventable causes can be attributed to the lack of a culture of prevention, where much has been left undone by the governments, the previous one, and the one before that, and we can go as far back as we want. Deaths due to lack of treatment are nothing more than the inefficiency and lack of reach of the health system and are related to two decisions of the previous government: canceling the Popular Insurance System before having a system to replace it and breaking the medicine supply system in the name of a fight against corruption that also failed to materialize. Even more serious is the underperformance in the Health System that persisted throughout the previous six-year term and, according to the data from the first half of the year, continues in this one. Having a budget and not spending it on the health of those who need it, whether due to disability or malice, is criminal.

Being the country with the highest number of deaths from preventable diseases and lack of treatment paints a complete picture of us. We are a country that lacks a culture of prevention—this applies to health and many other issues—and we are a country that lets its population die due to lack of treatment. What's truly worrying is that no one bats an eye.

Denmark is getting further and further away every day, and President Sheinbaum's administration has been very cautious—to put it mildly, fearful, to put it bluntly—in correcting the disaster left in the health sector by her predecessor's administration. Blaming the citizens who take to the streets to demand medicine is inhumane and cowardly, because the victims, the ones who will die from lack of care, are them, not the President.