Mexico announces a 5P plan to advance personalised healthcare

Carolina Darias, the country’s Health Minister has announced that the Ministry of Health is working on a 5P Plan (link in Spanish) for the National Health System (SNS). 5Ps stand for personalized, predictive, preventive, participatory and population healthcare. The objective is to update and expand the infrastructure for health centers in order to consolidate the Mexican personalized precision healthcare. It will allow preventive measures to be adapted in an individualized way. According to Darias, this plan “will respond to the need for resources in the SNS to carry out genetic and genomic tests, as well as the storage, processing and analysis of the data derived”.

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