New High-Tech Medical Unit Planned for Cancún

Cancún, Quintana Roo — In an unprecedented event for the healthcare system in Quintana Roo, Governor Mara Lezama Espinosa and the Director General of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, supervised the site where the Outpatient Diagnosis and Treatment Unit (UDTA) will be built in Cancún. This strategic project will position the state as a pioneer of a new third-level medical care model at the national level.

During the tour, the governor emphasized that this unit represents a fundamental advancement for specialized care in the state, responding to rapid population growth and the increase in beneficiaries in Cancún.

The unit will feature state-of-the-art technology for third-level care. “This represents the step up to the third level. Furthermore, it will be a very innovative model that will later be replicated in other parts,” stated Mara Lezama, underscoring that Quintana Roo is once again positioning itself at the forefront of public health.

The state leader noted that the UDTA will be equipped with cutting-edge technology to treat high-specialty diseases, particularly breast cancer, one of the priority issues for the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum. For this purpose, it will have stereotactic and tomosynthesis mammography equipment, and the country’s first positron emission PET-Scan will be installed.

This project, announced weeks ago by Mara Lezama and Zoé Robledo, will expand the diagnostic and therapeutic capacity of IMSS, reduce wait times, improve the timeliness of diagnosis and treatment for beneficiaries, and alleviate the operational load of Zone General Hospital No. 3, the Gynecology-Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital No. 7, and Regional General Hospital No. 17 in Cancún.

For his part, the IMSS Director General detailed that the Unit will feature high-tech infrastructure, such as a linear accelerator, tomographs, advanced diagnostic imaging equipment, and stereotactic mammographs, which will allow for treating complex conditions without the need for transfers to other states in the country.

State and federal authorities led the technical supervision tour. Zoé Robledo highlighted that the UDTA will incorporate two unprecedented pieces of equipment in IMSS at the national level: PET-Scan and robotic surgery, enabling highly precise interventions, especially in cases of trauma, knee, and spine.

“We want workers to rehabilitate faster and be able to return to their work life. With the support of the Quintana Roo government, with Mara, we will make it possible,” he emphasized.

Present at the tour were the honorary president of the Quintana Roo DIF System, Verónica Lezama; the State Secretary of Health, Flavio Carlos Rosado; the head of the Decentralized Administrative Operation Body of IMSS in Quintana Roo, Javier Michel Naranjo García; Senator Eugenio Segura; and Magistrate Heyden Cebada Rivas.