MIAMI, United States. — Cuban doctors who meet medical mission in Venezuela continue to leave the South American country. This was confirmed to CubaNet Arisleidy López Espinoza, a health professional who is currently in Colombia and who denounces irregularities in previously established contracts.
Among the reasons alleged by the Cuban woman to abandon the mission were the conditions imposed by the island’s regime and the failure to make monthly payments.
“We signed a contract with a certain amount of money that they were going to pay us in the mission and that is not fulfilled,” explained López Espinoza, who has a degree in nursing.
Entry per capita of health professionals has decreased ostensibly after the monetary regulation on the Island, since Cuban doctors receive their salaries in national currency.
“I, as a graduate in nursing, received 2,800 pesos a month, a figure that is not available at the end of the month, because the Cuban government told us that there was a delay of four and five months in payments.”
With the devaluation of the Cuban peso, Cuban health professionals who work in the South American country would barely be earning around 20 dollars, if one takes into account that the current value of that currency on the island exceeds 150 pesos in national currency.
However, that is not the only disagreement of those who work in the South American country.
“There is a part of the account that is frozen and until we finish the mission, neither we nor our families have access to it,” said López Espinoza.
Another reason that forced the Cuban woman to flee Venezuela was the poor conditions in which she worked. The Cuban nurse assured that she had completed periods of work in remote areas and with little food. In this sense, she confessed that she spent “three months eating white rice with lemon” because she did not eat sardines, which was one of the foods she could access.
The health professional also attested that many of the available medicines exceed their expiration date, in some cases with several years of expiration.
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