In support of the national strategy "All Together against COVID-19", the Citibanamex Center is set up as a Temporary Covid-19 Unit with the aim of caring for mild and moderate patients with this disease, as well as helping to reduce eventual saturation in hospitals of the health system of Mexico City.
UNAM, through the Faculty of Medicine, is in charge of the technical, medical and hospital decisions for the work of enabling the Unit. Likewise, during the development of the project, close communication and collaboration with the Health Institutes has been and will continue to be maintained.
Once enabled, the Ministry of Health of Mexico City will assume the direction, operation and medical supply, will determine the start of each stage, as well as the procedure for assessing and admitting patients, in order to put their health in the hands of professionals. . The Unit will have all the health procedures required by regulation.
According to the most recent technical conclusions, the Temporary COVID-19 Unit will have a maximum capacity of 854 beds for patients requiring oxygen therapy, 36 intermediate therapy spaces, areas necessary for the proper performance of the medical and laboratory staff, as well as transfer of patients in intensive care units.
Participating in the project are the Carlos Slim Foundation, the Telmex Telcel Foundation, the Inbursa Foundation, CIE, Walmart Mexico and Central America, Bimbo, Barcel, the Sertull Foundation, Citibanamex, the Alfredo Harp Helú Foundation, the Coca Cola Mexico Foundation, Coca Cola FEMSA, Goldman Sachs, Codere, HSBC and Coppel, who made a joint donation in the order of seven hundred million pesos, for the planning, construction and fitting out of the Unit. 50% of the resources are provided by the Carlos Slim, Telmex-Telcel and Inbursa Foundations.
The 15 companies and foundations that participate in this initiative, promoted by the CIE (Inter-American Entertainment Corporation) and coordinated jointly with the Carlos Slim Foundation and the UNAM, offer the experience acquired in this project to other states of the country with the purpose of similar initiatives are promoted and thus be able to expand the scope of their actions in the fight against COVID-19.
