[New hospitals of the program for reconstruction and reorganization of health services in the metropolitan area]. / Los nuevos hospitales del programa de reconstrucción y reordenamiento de los servicios de salud en el area metropolitana.

This article describes the stages in the building of the general hospitals of 144 beds included in the Health Services Reconstruction and Reordering Program. The Program is being carried out by the Health Ministry in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, emphasizing the reordering sense of the activities developed to cope with the observed unbalances in the distribution of health services among the various zones in the area. The article examines also the coordination among the internal units of the Health Ministry and other agencies in the Health Sector. Finally, the lessons of the experience derived from those processes are discussed.