Almost seven months after the Government of Mexico announced the hiring of 641 Cuban doctors to attend to the “deficit of specialists” in remote areas and that they would be based in Montaña de Guerrero, none of the 412 toilets that have arrived have yet been established. in this area.
Petatlán, one of the Guerrero municipalities affected by the lack of doctors, continues to have abandoned hospitals. The slogan “Transformed Guerrero. State Government 2021-20217”, recently painted on the facade of the R01 El Mameycito Rural Health Center, contrasts with dirty facilities, with expired medicines and useless instruments.
“There are armed people who come from the mountains. The doctors left because of that fear. There are no pharmacies, the only thing we have is the store, which sells pain pills,” he told 14ymedio Jacinto Salas, a resident of Petatlán.
“There are armed people who come from the mountains. The doctors left because of that fear. There are no pharmacies,” Jacinto Salas, a resident of Petatlán, told ’14ymedio’
The “Montaña de Guerrero” is one of the most controversial points in Mexico, not only because it is the poorest area, but also because of the presence of several cartels that dispute the transfer of drugs, something that makes it a permanent source of insecurity. , as well as other problems, such as the sale of girls in marriage in some indigenous communities.
The abandonment of the facilities of the El Mameycito clinic extends to other hospitals in Petatlán known as La Murga, El Parotal and Las Mesas. This despite the fact that since November 14 the restructuring process began in “42 hospitals, 983 First Level health units, Health Centers and clinics,” according to the director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security.
“We don’t know if Cuban doctors are going to arrive. All those who arrive at the clinic stay for a few days and then disappear, they leave, because they say there are no medicines to give us,” Salas stresses. “If you are sick you have to go down, the pregnant women here have the kids in the houses.”
This Thursday the Cuban government sent another group of 55 specialists to Mexico, 53 of them with experience in health missions. According to the proclamation of the official press, “health care is contributed to the Mexican people and the most vulnerable sectors are attended to.”
The controversy continues to prevail over the group of 412 Cubans hired by Mexico. Four of these physicians who were sent to the San Francisco General Hospital, in the state of Nayarit, stopped providing their services because they were exposed by Mexican students for not complying with the tasks for which they were hired and for which they specialists receive $2,042 per month.
Cubans are covered for accommodation, food and transportation services, in each of the nine states in which they are located
Cubans have covered the services of accommodation, food and transportationin each of the nine states in which they are found.
“Mexican residents did all the work. One of the Cuban doctors even suffered an accident, but not because of insecurity, nor because of her professional work, but because she fractured her foot vacationing on the beaches of the Riviera Nayarita,” published the newspaper The universal in his column Under Reserve.
The last week of August, the Madrid-based organization Prisoners Defenders (PD) revealed in his report The military truth behind the Cuban medical missions in Mexico that the more than 600 island nationals hired by Mexico “are military” and “none are specialists” (except family or general practitioners).
The organization assured that the toilets sent in the missions are “from Cuban Intelligence or G2, already introduced into the country through military airports, without the authorities, except for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his closest team, being able to know this fact”.
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