Sued

IMSS has sued the state government of Sonora (specifically the secretariat of finance) and the owners of the ABC Day-Care center, where 47 toddlers were killed in a fire several weeks ago. The specific complaints are that there was no fire alarm, nor a fire escape, nor any fire extinguishers, nor any smoke detectors in the center.

It seems odd that the national public health system (and official day-care administrator) would be bringing the civil suit rather than the parents of the children who died, but then Mexico's legal system often leaves me scratching my head. Take this line:

[IMSS chief] Daniel Karam clarified that the lawsuit doesn't exempt IMSS from fixing what is wrong and responding to circumstances that must be attended to with urgency; the principal example, he said, was guaranteeing the security of young children.

The implication seems to be that IMSS had a role in not overseeing the day-care operations with all due vigilance, which makes it even weirder that they are the ones bringing the action.