The foundation of the Hospital Infantil de Mexico, today Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gomez

In the early years of the 20th century, no hospital in Mexico held the capacity to address the health problems of Mexican children, making it necessary to build a modern institution to take care of these issues. This situation mobilized a group of doctors led by Dr. Federico Gomez Santos to seek the acknowledgement of the President, Abelardo L. Rodriguez, of the urgent need of a children's hospital. Later, the President approved the project for its construction in 1933. After 10 years of struggle in the political, social and economic fields, and with the support of presidents Lazaro Cardenas and Manuel Avila Camacho, the Hospital Infantil de Mexico was inaugurated on April 30th, 1943. Today, 75 years after its creation, the hospital has withstood the test of time maintaining intact its principles of assistance, teaching and research, and emerging as the cradle of Mexican and Latin American pediatrics.