Last Review: July, 2026
Banobras offers interested parties information on the sector in Mexico with data from various sources in order to provide knowledge and useful elements for decision-making on the subject. The content presented does not reflect the position of Banobras.
SICT: SICT Authorized to Carry Out Infrastructure Works Related to the Health Sector (05/07/2026). Consult
Mexico’s National Health System comprises a network of public, social, and private institutions, agencies, and organizations operating under a coordinated framework among federal and state authorities and specialized entities responsible for protecting, promoting, and providing healthcare services to the population. Its objective is to guarantee timely, safe, and high-quality access to healthcare services while coordinating disease prevention, epidemiological surveillance, research, and health regulation.
According to the 2025–2030 Health Sector Program, the national priorities are:
Guarantee universal access to healthcare services.
Main Sector Institutions
Healthcare services are provided through different institutional schemes serving various population groups:
Among the most significant recent developments are the expansion of healthcare coverage across several states and the incorporation of medical units and hospitals into the IMSS-Bienestar model.
Healthcare Infrastructure
Healthcare infrastructure is one of the main pillars for ensuring universal access to healthcare services and strengthening the National Health System’s capacity. Under the 2025–2030 Health Sector Program, infrastructure actions focus not only on constructing, expanding, and rehabilitating medical facilities but also on reducing underserved areas, strengthening primary healthcare capacity, expanding coverage in rural and marginalized communities, and promoting telehealth and telemedicine services.
As part of this strategy, the Government of Mexico is implementing the National Hospital Infrastructure Plan, which includes 152 hospital projects by 2030, consisting of 50 new hospitals, 47 expansions and 55 replacements or major upgrades. These initiatives represent an estimated investment of 181 billion pesos and will increase national hospital capacity from 96,966 to 106,105 hospital beds.. Consult
Investment planning and prioritization are supported by the Master Plan for Physical Health Infrastructure, the Ministry of Health’s guiding instrument for developing, reorganizing, and strengthening healthcare infrastructure and medical equipment. This instrument supports public investment decisions, identifies infrastructure needs based on healthcare demand, and promotes institutional coordination to optimize resources and expand healthcare coverage nationwide.
Mexico’s public healthcare network includes more than 20,500 outpatient care facilities throughout the country, serving as the primary point of access to healthcare services. These facilities include health centers, family medicine clinics, specialized medical offices, and community health units.
Additionally, the system has:
Source: National Health Information System (SINAIS), Ministry of Health.
As of the end of 2024, the public healthcare system had:
Private Sector Participation:
Healthcare services in Mexico are complemented by significant private sector participation.
According to INEGI’s 2025 Health Statistics for Private Healthcare Establishments (ESEP):
Private providers play a particularly important role in specialized medical services, hospitalization, and diagnostic services, complementing the installed capacity of public institutions.
Mexico’s health sector has an institutional and planning framework that coordinates the participation of the three levels of government and various stakeholders to improve healthcare infrastructure and medical equipment, strengthen the supply of medicines, and modernize healthcare services, with the goal of ensuring universal, free, and high-quality healthcare.
To access additional information, please consult the following documents:
The guiding instrument of Mexico’s National Democratic Planning System, establishing the country’s development priorities, objectives, and strategies. In the health sector, it guides actions to strengthen the National Health System, expand access to healthcare services, reduce health inequalities, and consolidate the healthcare infrastructure required to guarantee the right to health protection.
The primary sector planning instrument establishing the objectives, strategies, action lines, and indicators for strengthening Mexico’s National Health System during 2025–2030.
The Ministry of Health’s guiding instrument for planning, developing, and reorganizing healthcare infrastructure and medical equipment. Its purpose is to support public investment decisions, identify infrastructure needs based on healthcare demand, strengthen system capacity, and promote institutional coordination to optimize resources and expand healthcare coverage nationwide.
A document that consolidates and monitors priority healthcare infrastructure projects included in the PMIFS, including the construction, expansion, replacement, rehabilitation, and equipping of healthcare facilities across Mexico.
Description of the hierarchy and roles of the various entities and actors involved in the sector, including how the different institutions and bodies coordinate and collaborate.
The legal framework governing Mexico’s health sector establishes the constitutional right to health protection through mandatory laws, programs, and procedures.
The main legal instruments include:
In 2026, the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration was amended to authorize the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), at the request of the competent federal authorities and in coordination with the three levels of government, to participate in the construction, equipping, rehabilitation, reinforcement, reconstruction, replacement, expansion, and adaptation of public works associated with healthcare infrastructure projects. This reform strengthens the institutional framework for developing and modernizing Mexico’s healthcare infrastructure. Consult
Official Mexican Standards (NOMs) establish the mandatory technical criteria governing hospitals, medical offices, laboratories, epidemiological surveillance systems, medical records, and healthcare infrastructure, ensuring standardized, high-quality healthcare services.
Regarding infrastructure NOM-016-SSA3, Infrastructure and Equipment for Healthcare Facilities, establishes the minimum infrastructure and equipment requirements that healthcare facilities must meet to provide medical services.
To gain a comprehensive understanding of project development stages—from initial planning to implementation—please refer to the investment cycle page.
Projects under development (pre-investment, bidding, and execution) and operational projects available on the Projects Mexico platform that, at some stage, were considered investment opportunities and do not necessarily include Banobras participation.
Projects under development
| Project | Sector | Subsector | Stage | Sustainability | With Ally Networks |
| 1077 Second-level care hospital in the municipality of Ures, Sonora | Social Infrastructure | Health | Execution | No | Yes |
| 1066 General Hospital “Dr. Gonzalo Castañeda Escobar”, Tlatelolco, Mexico City | Social Infrastructure | Health | Execution | No | Yes |
| 1063 General Hospital in Cancun, Quintana Roo | Social Infrastructure | Health | Execution | No | Yes |
| 1053 General Zone Hospital in Manzanillo, Colima | Social Infrastructure | Health | Execution | No | Yes |
| 1052 Hospital Clinic in Cherán, Michoacán | Social Infrastructure | Health | Execution | No | Yes |
| 1050 Regional General Hospital in Morelia, Michoacán | Social Infrastructure | Health | Execution | No | Yes |
| 1008 Regional High Specialty Hospital in San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca | Social Infrastructure | Health | Execution | No | Yes |
Projects in operation
| Project | Sector | Subsector | Stage | Sustainability | With Ally Networks |
| 0790 Zumpango High Speciality Regional Hospital | Social Infrastructure | Health | Operation | Yes | Yes |
| 0371 Bajio Hospital | Social Infrastructure | Health | Operation | Yes | No |
| 0370 Ciudad Victoria Hospital | Social Infrastructure | Health | Operation | Yes | No |
| 0368 Ixtapaluca Hospital | Social Infrastructure | Health | Operation | Yes | No |
| 0005 General Hospital in the Mexico City South Regional Delegation (Tlahuac) | Social Infrastructure | Health | Operation | Yes | Yes |
The National Bank for Public Works and Services (Banobras) participates in financing infrastructure projects in Mexico.
Project Finance: In order to support the financing of infrastructure projects and public services, the Project Finance Unit structures financing supported by the granting of loans and guarantees to those projects developed as Public-Private Partnerships and which have their own source of payment from the exploitation of the concession or public contract or from the collection of the service in question. The Public-Private Partnership schemes may be Federal and/or Local, in their different modalities, such as: Concessions, Service Provision Projects (PPS) or Financed Public Works Contracts, among others.- The Platform has more than 600 investment opportunities in all its stages, with visits from more than 180 countries and more than 40,000 users per month.
Financing for States and Municipalities and Decentralized Public Organizations: The products and services are designed to meet the infrastructure needs of states, municipalities and their decentralized public organizations, in order to improve the quality of life of the population and increase competitiveness.
Infrastructure is a pillar of development, which is why Banobras has innovative products and services focused on contributing to regional development through the promotion of financial mechanisms to:
Boost investment in infrastructure and public services.
Promote the financial and institutional strengthening of states, municipalities and decentralized public agencies.
To this end, Banobras has the following financing schemes:
Products:
Project Development: Banobras offers services aimed at assisting public sector agencies and entities in the development of infrastructure projects.
Financial structuring of the project:
Banobras makes available to interested parties, analysis sheets for the detection of sustainability practices in infrastructure projects, in accordance with the methodological framework “Attributes and Framework for Sustainable Infrastructure” of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Its objective is to highlight sustainable practices, encourage their adoption in future projects and provide relevant information for investors in their economic, environmental, social and institutional dimensions.
To review the projects that already have a sustainability record, select the “SEARCH CRITERIA>” option in the PROJECTS section, and then select “With Sustainability Analysis” at the end of the criteria; the projects that have a record will be displayed below.
In addition, Banobras offers an analysis tool that presents the potential relationship of the different infrastructure projects of the Mexico Projects platform with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda and their targets. This comparative analysis facilitates the use of data according to different criteria, such as the potential impact of projects and sectors against national and global development goals.
The comparison is only made between projects in the same subsector. To select and consult here.
The alignment of a project with the SDGs provides information on the degree of focus on sustainability; it provides a comparison between projects in the same sector and sub-sector and facilitates investment decisions, showing the highest and lowest alignment of projects to the SDGs. Comparative analysis facilitates the use of data according to different criteria, such as the potential impact of projects and sectors against national and global development goals.
In the case of the sector, 5 projects are identified in the platform that have sustainability practices detection sheets, which allows to know, among other things, the projects with more and better alignments to the SDGs. For more information, access the Sustainable Development Goals application:
Highest alignment:
Lowest alignment:
Banobras, through its Ally Networks application, provides information on companies participating in competitive public procurement processes for infrastructure projects in Mexico, based on official sources such as ComprasMX. It includes details on investment amounts, number of participations in bids, projects awarded, consortiums, and business associations, which allows the user to identify potential actors for the establishment of investments in the country.
To consult the projects that have information on the participating companies, select the option “SEARCH CRITERIA>” in the PROJECTS section, and then select “With applicant companies” at the end of the criteria.
In the application, you can consult on the sector:
This section offers documents, reports and reports with technical, statistical and regulatory information on the sector:
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