Madrid Spain.- After learning of the recent agreement between Cuba and Honduras to send Cuban doctors to the Central American country, Honduran doctors have expressed their disagreement; fundamentally due to the high number of specialists who remain unemployed in that country.
“The coming of Cuban doctors has a cost of more than 2 thousand dollars that have to be paid to the Cuban Government. We have more than 5,000 general practitioners waiting and more than 10,000 unemployed doctors, let’s better give Hondurans a chance,” said Carlos Umaña, deputy former member of the Court of Honor of the Honduran Medical College (CMH).
In interview with digital processUmaña insisted that “there are plenty of general practitioners in Honduras,” so “it would be better to hire the 10,000 unemployed doctors that there are.”
“We strongly reject that they bring general practitioners, because here those who exist go anywhere if they are given a place or if they are hired, that is why I consider that there is no excuse to bring general practitioners to Honduras,” he added.
For his part, Dr. Edy Avelar, delegate of the Honduran Medical Association, He referred to the hundreds of Honduran doctors who are owed their salary for several months, for which he considered a contradiction that the “government intends to bring Cuban medical brigades.”
He also considered that since it is unknown whether Cuban doctors really have professional certification as such and what specialty they have, they should accredit their university degree and other documents before the Medical College.
Agreement between Havana and Honduras
The arrival of Cuban doctors in Honduras is expected for the beginning of next September, due to a recent agreement between the two countries to strengthen bilateral relations, as confirmed by the Honduran Press Secretary through Twitter.
Through the same social network, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Josefina Vidal confirmed the cooperation agreement between the two countries, established during the official visit to the Central American nation of the Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment of Cuba, Rodrigo Malmierca.
#CubaForHealth?? go back to sister #Honduras??@EugenioMtnez @GustavoDVO https://t.co/ZPtjbUpUpZ
– Josefina Vidal (@JosefinaVidalF) July 20, 2022
According to the official media Latin Press“cooperation in health matters was one of the priorities of the agreements between Tegucigalpa and Havana, and he referred to the satisfaction of his compatriots for the return of the doctors of the Caribbean nation.”
In the aforementioned publication by Josefina Vidal, the Cubans reacted by denouncing the exploitation to the island’s doctors.
“I do not understand how they are not ashamed to continue using Cuban doctors as slaves. Even the UN has described the work of Cuban doctors as “forced labor” through the special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery,” said a user identified as @Taoro8.
While the Internet user @ dayagui1 stated: “Lady, how disrespectful they continue to send doctors as if they were slaves. You who have a health system destroyed and lacking everything. What a shame really.”
Cuban doctors also exploited in Mexico
In recent months, the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been criticized and accused of contributing to the regime’s exploitation scheme based on the health agreement signed last May, for which they will travel on a “mission” to Mexico. 500 Caribbean doctors.
It recently emerged that the AMLO government will pay the Cuban regime 146 thousand Mexican pesos per month for each contracted doctor, which is equivalent to more than 7,000 dollars.
Given this fact, the leader of the National Action Party (PAN), Marko Cortés Mendoza, denounced: Cuban doctors “are treated like slaves because the money is not for them but for the dictator Díaz-Canel of Cuba, and already in this It was very clear that López Obrador defends dictatorships, non-democratic autocratic countries.”
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