MIAMI, United States. — At least 20 Cuban doctors hired by the Mexican government to the island’s regime do not have a certificate that accredits them as specialists. This was confirmed to the newspaper 14ymedio María Reyna Bárcenas Hurtado, president of the Federated Colleges of Medicine of the state of Morelos.
According to Bárcenas Hurtado, the health professionals from the island who arrived in Morelos last January, and who allegedly had previous experience in Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Guatemala and Pakistan, “have not taken up their duties” due to lack of ID, reason for which, in addition, were returned to Mexico City (CDMX).
It was a supervision carried out by the health centers of Axochiapan, Ocuituco, Tetecala and Temixco, which verified that the specialty of the Cuban doctors “did not correspond to what was required in these hospitals.”
The event occurred weeks after Gil Magadán Salazar, leader of the union of the Ministry of Health, denounced that the island’s specialists “had no experience” and stressed that “the official Mexican standard requires doctors to have their professional license to practice, and it is a requirement that they do not meet because they have not processed the apostille of their documents issued in Cuba”.
“One said he was an anesthesiologist, but he did not want to enter due to a blockage, we have a dermatologist who has not consulted and the others seem to be gerontologists, areas that we do not require,” explained Gil Magadán Salazar, who also revealed that the doctors Cubans were enrolled in a training program.
Bárcenas Hurtado told 14ymedio that it will be the Government of Mexico that decides what will happen to those doctors.
Despite the irregularities detected, a source confirmed to 14ymedio that the payment to the Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos, SA —an entity that receives $2,042 per month per doctor— “has not stopped.”
On March 14, the director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, discussed the possibility of hire another 600 Cuban doctors (it is estimated that there are currently more than 500 in that country) for the mass public health program promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
