On the first floor of the Dr. Salvador González Herrejón in Atizapán de Zaragoza, the water was more than 30 centimeters high after heavy rain on Monday evening (local time), as reported by the El Heraldo newspaper and other media. Videos and photos showed how employees and emergency services wading through the water brought newborns into incubators and patients in their beds to higher floors.
The mayor of Atizapán, Ruth Olvera Nieto, even spoke in a letter of almost a meter of flood in the hospital. In the letter that she published on Twitter, she asked Mexico’s Interior Minister Olga Sánchez Cordero and authorities in the state of Mexico – where Atizapán is located – for support.
The community’s emergency services are not sufficient to cope with the extent of this “climatological phenomenon”, wrote Olvera Nieto. The flood caused the sewer system in Atizapán and the associated communities to collapse. Cars were washed away. The storm also hit other communities in the state of Mexico. In addition to Atizapán de Zaragoza, according to media reports, Tlalnepantla was also particularly hard hit.