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Salud Digna (national low-cost diagnostics network)

📍 México · 2003 · Salud Digna A.C.

Scale
local
subnational
national
systemic

Description

Nonprofit organization founded in 2003 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, by Jesús Vizcarra Calderón. It offers clinical laboratory services, imaging (X-rays, ultrasound, mammography) and eyeglasses at prices up to 70% lower than the private sector, with a high-volume hybrid model and entrepreneurial mindset that made it financially self-sufficient since 2007. Today it serves more than 23 million people a year in more than 240 clinics in Mexico and has expanded to Central America. Harvard Business School case study (2010) and named by Profeco the cheapest laboratory in Mexico (2022).

Linked evidence

Salud Digna en México: diagnóstico y prevención a precios accesiblesBanco Interamericano de Desarrollo · 2019ContextSalud Digna: Successfully Competing with For-Profit OrganizationsHarvard Business School (Allen Grossman y Regina García-Cuéllar; rev. 2011) · 2010Evidence