Regarding local medical care. Dr. Simi started a program decades ago to help get a Dr into your neighborhood in Mexico by attaching a small clinic to a local pharmacy.
They don't care if you are a resident or illegal, they just take information and make a diagnosis to help you. For a minimal fee from 25 to 100 pesos. Not always experienced, sometimes retired from hospital practice, sometimes those who couldn't get a position in a private or government hospital. It's a tough gig to get rich here in every field.
But always a real doctor that actually tries to get it right. My experiences with them is good.
Yeah, wait in line, get a diagnosis and the meds next door. They will refer you to a list of specialists if it's that serious and a local clinic can't do it properly.
Government clinics only help citizens, or those on the government program for free care. But its horrible service. My wife does the government part to get coverage from work and a private clinic to get cured ignoring the lack of free meds the government never gives. Always out of stock.
A lot of the covid testing in this area was actually handled by these small neighborhood clinics and serious cases referred to hospitals.
Private for the better off or the government ones for the unlucky.
