Mexican government Monday said that it is unnecessary to implement in the country a humanitarian program from Venezuela to provide health assistance to indigenous and other vulnerable communities, news agency Efe reported.

"It is not necessary (to accept the Venezuelan program,) as in our country we have the potential to attend to all these cases," Mexican Minister of Health Julio Frenk told a press conference.

Venezuelan chargé d'affaires Néstor González announced on Friday that the so-called "Misión Milagro" in Mexico has been implemented already in the Felipe Carrillo Puerto municipality, Quintana Roo state (the Yucatan peninsula) and is to be extended later on to Monterrey (north), Michoacán state (west) and finally to other regions.

The program is being fostered by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez with the aim of aiding "the underprivileged people of the Americas," according to the Venezuelan diplomat. González added that Cuba is also taking part in the "internationalization" process of the Venezuelan mission.