Hospital Mexico seen from the General Cañas Highway
Hospital México is a public hospital located in the district of La Uruca, west of the city of San José, capital of Costa Rica. It is among the main hospitals of the Costa Rican Social Security. Being a public hospital, it belongs to the Costa Rican Social Security Fund, an institution in charge of health and social security in Costa Rica. Location
Hospital México is located on the outskirts of San José, 2.7 km from the La Sabana Metropolitan Park on the General Cañas Highway. History
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund was created in 1941, but until the 1960s it did not have its own hospital (the other health centers in the country were administered by the Social Protection Board at the time), so for those years the preparations for the construction of a great hospital begin. As the institution had no idea how to build a hospital, collaboration was requested from various entities around the world, and especially, the Mexican Social Security Institute, which donated a series of plans as well as money to carry out the work, so construction began that was entrusted to the Costa Rican architect Alberto Linner Díaz, who also trained in medical architecture in Mexico. The construction of the medical center culminated in 1969, being inaugurated in 1970 and named Hospital México in homage of the architect to its alma mater, and due to the contribution of the IMSS, from among all the other social security institutions that contributed to the establishment of the hospital.
It is the most recent General Hospital in the Greater Metropolitan Area, and it was also the first to hold the Major Clinics as a prelude to an internment in the medical center.
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