General Hospital pays four companies 107.974 million pesos for food supplies

Mexico’s General Hospital contracted four companies for 107.974 million pesos to supply food for its central cafeteria during 2026, while officials examine whether eggs served there caused an outbreak among resident doctors.

The suppliers are Logística Alimentaria Maxfran, Distribuidora de Alimentos Dip@ms@ México, Procesadora y Distribuidora Los Chaneques and Pan Rol. Maxfran received a 69.078 million-peso contract for groceries, including eggs, as well as cold cuts, vegetables, fruit, dairy products and fish.

Dip@ms@ México and Los Chaneques jointly signed a 29.757 million-peso contract to provide poultry and meat. Pan Rol renewed a 9.138 million-peso contract to supply bread to the central cafeteria. The contracts state that the food would be used for meals for patients and hospital employees.

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Today we suspect, although we have to wait for the tests taken in recent days, that the eggs from the hospital were the source of the infection, but that is our current presumption based on the case study.

Eduardo Clark García, the undersecretary for sector integration and coordination of medical care, said officials currently suspect eggs consumed by resident doctors in one of the two cafeterias. He stressed that testing was still pending, describing the eggs as the current presumption based on the case investigation.

The gastroenteritis outbreak at Hospital General de México Dr. Eduardo Liceaga affected 135 resident and specialist doctors. Forty-one remained hospitalized on Thursday. In an information note, the hospital said the outbreak was “temporarily associated with food provided by the contracted institutional cafeteria service.”

The procurement notice required the suppliers to carry civil liability insurance worth one million pesos for possible harm, including physical injury to hospital staff. It also included compensation provisions for deaths attributed to related incidents.

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Associated temporarily with food provided by the contracted institutional cafeteria service.