MADRID, Spain.- A new group of 84 Cuban doctors will arrive in Mexico next week as part of the health agreement signed last May by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the Cuban regime.
With them, the number of contracted specialists who are already in the Aztec country amounts to 436, according to reported This Tuesday the director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, during López Obrador’s daily morning press conference.
The minister also specified that the Cuban doctors have been located in 79 municipalities of nine Mexican states: Nayarit (92), Oaxaca (61), Campeche (54), Colima (55), Tlaxcala (26), Sonora (17), Zacatecas (10), Veracruz (7) and Baja California Sur (30).
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Last August, the Mexican authorities reported that the number of Cuban doctors destined to carry out a mission in Mexico would increase to 641, which represented an increase of 28% compared to the initial figure of 500.
In September, Andrés Manuel López Obrador He referred to its “Health Plan for Wellbeing”, which aims to create a free health system.
According to AMLO, it will be active in mid-2023 and for this it has Cuban doctors.
“The specialist doctors are already arriving. We brought them and we are not going to stop thanking the brotherly people of Cuba and their Government because specialist doctors from Cuba are working in the hospital in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, as they are doing in other hospitals in Nayarit and other states,” he said in this regard.
At that time, the Mexican president also assured: “We are going to continue hiring specialist doctors in Cuba and in other countries, even if it hurts them,” “because we have the commitment that doctors will not be lacking.”
Since the sending of doctors to Mexico was announced, the agreement has generated great controversy, and opponents of the AMLO government have questioned it for financing the Havana dictatorship through health professionals who are exploited.
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