Jalisco governor Emilio Gonzalez has given up his publically funded private medical insurance and signed up with the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS), the national health care program that covers more than half the population of Mexico.
Some children in Jalisco and neighboring states who have been badly disfigured by burns will get the chance to speed their recoveries at the Shriners Hospital in Galveston, Texas.
Jalisco's Department of Health (SSJ) will launch mobile blood donation teams starting in early July in an effort to bolster the state's dismal blood bank supply.