The accounts would result, he said, from dividing the 6.2 million dollars (about 135 million pesos) that was the amount of the contract that the government of Mexico City signed with the government of Cuba for 585 Cuban doctors to come, for the three months of stay in the Mexican capital, although it was officially reported that this would include research work, for which the resulting figures do not give the 145,000 pesos referred to.
“On the other hand, in Mexico, an intern must pay for his food, his tickets, he lives in the same health center. And in the case of these Cuban people they paid for the hotel, food and transportation because they were transferred, “he recalled.
He added that they travel with someone who watches over them so that what happens with the Cuban Symphony Orchestras does not happen after a tour: everyone leaves (to another country) and a quartet remains.
50,000 doctors graduate for 2,000 places
With data from the Government Reports of the President of the Republic of 2018 (Enrique Peña Nieto’s last year), Ramírez Barba explains that only about 2,000 positions for doctors have been created so far this six-year term.
There it is reported that the positions of doctors in the public sector increased by 10,011 between specialist doctors and general practitioners. “But in the small print it says that around 8,000 jobs were temporary due to the COVID emergency,” recalls the legislator, and therefore there are only about 2,000 jobs left and the rest were laid off.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador offends the medical union and lies by talking about something he does not know.
Éctor Jaime Ramírez Barba, deputy for the PAN
As in Oaxaca, more than 2,000 doctors and nurses were fired because 128 UMAPS were suspended “and the poorest are without medical care.”
In contrast, Ramírez Barba highlights, in three years 50,000 graduate doctors came out against 2,000 places offered. That explains why some 40,000 are unemployed and underemployed in pharmacies near clinics “earning less than 100 pesos an hour for their services.”
“Then don’t offend the president,” warns the PAN member.
