The agreement between the government of Mexico and Cuba took place within the framework of the international tour that President López Obrador made from May 5 to 8 through Central America and Cuba.
The president recalled that the deficit of medical personnel that Mexico faces is due to the fact that during the neoliberal periods, young people who wanted to prepare were rejected.
“We are going to hire doctors from Cuba who are going to come to work in our country, we made this decision because we do not have the doctors we need in our country,” he said.
During the health crisis caused by the pandemic, Mexico hired some Cuban doctors to join them in the fight against COVID-19.
Another of the agreements signed by the president in health matters is that Cuba will prepare Mexican doctors in specialties through scholarships granted by the Mexican government.
“We signed a cooperation agreement that includes health, so that they can go to train general practitioners as specialists in Cuba, we are going to grant scholarships for that purpose,” he said.
In addition, Mexico will acquire the anticovid vaccine that Cuba produces and that will be applied to children. ç “They are vaccines for children, for little ones, basically for COVID from 2 years and older, in a first stage,” she advanced.
When asked if all children could be vaccinated against COVID-19 in August, the president said that it is a possibility because there will already be enough vaccines
