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These are the highlights of AMLO’s ‘morning’ on April 11, 2023.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appears at his morning press conference on Tuesday, April 11, in which he talks about issues related to health and safety.
Mexico analyzes the end of the health emergency by COVID-19, anticipates AMLO
The Ministry of Health is already analyzing the end of the health emergency due to COVID-19, López Obrador announced this morning after Joe Biden signed the law that terminates this regulation in the United States a day before.
“Health is analyzing it, I think it will be announced soon, the agreement is already being analyzed and we are going to inform them,” he commented.
The president indicated that this measure will depend on the health conditions in which the country finds itself as well as the analysis of specialists, and the decision of the World Health Organization (WHO) in this regard will be taken into account.
Energy production will increase to 65% in 2024: AMLO
López Obrador estimates that national energy production will reach 65 percent next year after the purchase of the 13 Iberdrola plants.
“Today, with the operation we carried out, that 39 [por ciento de producción energética nacional] it becomes 55, that is why I am talking about nationalization and with what we are doing for next year we calculate that we are going to have, even with the age of some plants, we are going to reach 65 percent in all electricity generation,” advancement.
The president pointed out that with this purchase the government saved 30 percent of the construction cost of the plants, which have a average useful life three times longer than those of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE).
“Los 6 billion dollars Well, they are what the plants are worth at a good price, which was what was done, from there you have to make a discount of about 700 million dollars which is the payment for the operation and that goes to the public treasury”, he explained.
According to López Obrador, the investment will be recovered in a maximum of 10 years and this guarantees that there is no lack of electricity in the country.
These are the effects of addictive consumption of fentanyl
The government inaugurated a new section on Tuesday called “Social Prevention of Addictions” in whose first installment the effects, composition and presentations of fentanyl were reported, as well as the actions that are developed to avoid its addictive consumption in the country.
As for the effects of fentanyl use that it is not carried out for medical purposes and in a controlled manner, Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell pointed out the following:
- Analgesia
- Drowsiness
- Nausea
- Constipation
- Euphoria
- addition or dependency
- hypotension
- muscle stiffness
- Intestinal muscle spasm
- involuntary movements
- hallucinations
- Confusion
- Delirium
- Coma
- respiratory depression
- Death
Fentanyl, according to the official, is a drug used for the chronic pain and anesthetic for surgeries that is 100 times more powerful than morphine y 50 more than heroin. Its presentation for medical use can be oral while, outside of these purposes, it can be found as white powder, tablets, tablets and sweets. This opioid can be consumed as both intravenous and intramuscular injections, it can be inhaled or applied with skin patches.
López-Gatell also warned that fentanyl can be distributed on the streets under the names of white heroin, synthetic heroin, white goat, fenta, M30, China White, China Girl and tango.
In order to prevent a consumer crisis like the one that is taking place in the United States, the Federal Government will develop materials and mechanisms that help to deal with cases of addiction in schools. Among the measures is the accompaniment of teachers by specialists doctors in psychiatry, child psychiatry and psychology, as well as the creation of the microsite Classroom Strategy: Addiction Preventionwhere you can consult and download material on drugs and addiction prevention for the development of interventions in the classroom.
COVID in Mexico: Average number of deaths fell in the last week, says López-Gatell
The weekly average of deaths from COVID-19 in Mexico went from double digits to less than one in the last week, the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, reported on Tuesday.
According to the official, the cases have had a fastest reduction in the last two weeks so the government hopes that this implies a new trend. The figures presented show a decrease in 2 mil 883 cases from March 5 to 11 to 520 from April 2 to 8.
So far there is an occupancy of general beds of 4 percent and 1 percent in beds with a fan.
