Mexico will open a centralized digital registry on September 14 to recruit physicians and nurses who will staff the 12,750 primary care clinics operated by IMSS-Bienestar, announced Eduardo Clark, Undersecretary of Sectoral Integration and Coordination of Medical Care Services (SIDSS), according to Milenio.
The application window runs through October 31 at serviciouniversalsalud.gob.mx, the platform where interested health workers can browse available facilities, shifts, and modalities before applying. The announcement was made on August 25 at the morning press conference at Palacio Nacional and is part of the expansion of IMSS-Bienestar's primary care network, which manages public health services in 24 states. According to Infobae México, the clinics are expected to begin operations between January and February 2027 and will add more than 40 million consultations per year. What sets this effort apart is its method: browsing positions, reviewing shifts, and registering all happen through a single national digital platform.
The network comprises 7,111 rural clinics and 5,639 urban ones. Eligible applicants include physicians, licensed nurses, technicians, and aides, as well as retired IMSS or ISSSTE personnel who retain their pension; the estimated salary is approximately 20,000 pesos per month. Each clinic will include a Farmacia del Bienestar stocked with roughly 90 no-cost medications and will serve both minor ailments and chronic conditions, including diabetes and hypertension. The spaces are existing facilities that currently do not function as clinics. Operations will follow two daily weekday shifts, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and a weekend shift running through 2 p.m. For hard-to-reach areas, a Virtual Center will provide remote consultations via video call, according to Milenio.
The application window closes October 31, and the clinics are expected to begin operating between January and February 2027, at which point the network aims to handle more than 40 million annual consultations. That launch will mark the first public test of health-staff recruitment managed through a single national platform.
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