Not even Dinamarca boasts a universal and free health system as effective as IMSS-Bienestar, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador last Sunday when he delivered his sixth and final Government Report in the capital’s Zócalo.
Since the last century, Mexican companies have maintained a trade deficit with the country whose king is Frederick X. In other words, Mexico buys more merchandise than it sells to Denmark, according to records from the Bank of Mexico (Banxico).
Last year, Mexico imported merchandise worth 867 million dollars from the Nordic nation, considered the happiest in the world according to the World Happiness Report 2024, sponsored by the United Nations.
Of this total amount, 45% or about 400 million dollars correspond to the purchase of medicines, preparations and medical devices, such as splints and devices to treat bone fractures with the Made in Denmark label, according to figures from the Ministry of Economy.
Mexico City, Baja California and Nuevo Leon are the main importers of articles manufactured in Dinamarca, since they concentrate 99% of the purchases, that is, practically all of them.
Dinamarca specializes in the pharmaceutical sector and among its main companies are Novo Nordisk, Leo Pharma, Lundbeck, Orifarm Group and ALK-Abelló Nordic.
The company specialized in international insurance, APRIL International Care, explains that the classification of the world’s health systems shows that only countries with a high per capita income enjoy a good health status.
Each Dane would have been entitled to 68,300 dollars last year if all of Denmark’s national wealth were divided equally among its population of 5.9 million inhabitants, five times more than the 13,600 dollars that would be allocated to each of the 131 million Mexicans, according to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita calculated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Source: eluniversal
