The 500 Cuban doctors who were hired by the Government of Mexico to provide their services in marginal areas of the country will receive a salary similar to that of Mexican health workers. “They would be receiving between 41,784 (2,042 dollars) and 35,237 pesos (1,722 dollars) a month,” he told 14ymedio an employee of the Institute of Health for Well-being (Insabi).
The source specified that, because the doctors who are in the state of Nayarit, have specialties in anesthesiology, general surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, internal medicine and pediatrics, they should receive 2,042 dollars per month. Although “it has not been established whether the money will be received by them or through the Government of Cuba,” the official said.
“Lodging and food will be covered by the municipal authorities [de las ciudades] in which each hospital where they will work is located,” added the source and further detailed that “every 180 days the immigration permit will be renewed.”
In the call issued by the Mexican Institute of Social Security and Insabi, it is indicated that the contract for doctors is of a temporary nature with a duration of four months, during which time they will be entitled to benefits and training. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured this Monday that Cuban toilets “will be protected” at work.
López Obrador announced that after covering the spaces in Nayarit, the next states will be Tlaxcala and Colima, without mentioning the Sierra de Guerrero, a region that was initially indicated by the president as the one with the greatest health need and to which it would be sent to the 500 doctors of the Island.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured this Monday that Cuban toilets “will be protected” at work
This Wednesday the health authorities of Nayarit confirmed to 14ymedio that 47 Cuban doctors were taken to hospitals located in the rural towns of Las Varas, in the municipality of Compostela, Puente de Camotlán (La Yesca), Jesús María (Del Nayar), San Francisco and Tondoroque (Bahía de Banderas) and to the municipal capitals of Santiago Ixcuintla, Rosamorada and Ixtlán del Río. While seven were incorporated into the staff of the Tepic central hospital.
The Cuban medical missions that provided their services during the covid-19 pandemic were questioned for the lack of preparation of the health workers and for the high costs they represented for Mexico.
A report revealed that the doctors of the Island were limited to “make beds, take vital signs, carry out surveys, in addition to sponging patients to bathe,” while the Cuban authorities claimed to have reduced mortality rates during their stay in Mexico.
In March 2021 it was announced that Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration, head of the Government of Mexico City, spent a total of 150,759,867 pesos (6,986,091 dollars) in the hiring of 585 Cuban doctors who were working in the capital from April 24 to July 24, 2020, once added the 14,884,785 pesos (689,749 dollars) for lodging and food for the doctors. For the other brigades that have arrived in the country, the amounts disbursed to the Island Government are not known.
On the same subject, the coordinator in the Mexican Senate of the opposition National Action Party, Julen Rementería, accused the governments of Mexico and Cuba of orchestrating a fraud of 12,692,940 dollars for the hiring of 585 toilets without title, coming from the Island.
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