Mexico City.- In the midst of the health emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Mexican households face a sharp escalation in the price of medicines, in particular, the healing material reported the highest rise in the last 20 years.
In Querétaro it was where the price of the medicine cabinet shot up the most, 50.4% in June compared to the same month last year. It was followed by Tabasco, with 47.9%, and Durango, with 36%, indicates the Inegi listing of healing material, whose list includes alcohol, cotton, syringes, gauze and nine other products.
Antibiotics also reported significant increases, with Nayarit being the most affected entity, with an increase of 19%; continuing with the State of Mexico, where they increased 17.8%, and Morelos, with 13.5%.
Painkillers rose more in Guanajuato, 15.2%; Yucatan appears in second place, with 14.2%, and Sinaloa in third, with 13.5%.
With the largest population in the country, the State of Mexico registered the most pronounced increase in diabetes medications, 20.6%.
In Campeche, anti-inflammatories became more expensive, 14.7%, and in Tabasco, where mainly anti-influenza drugs, 14%.
The laboratories depend on raw materials from abroad, mainly from China, where production slowed down to contain the pandemic, a situation that caused a failure to deliver and a shortage of products.
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