From this Monday your consultations will begin in Mexico the first Cuban doctors, of a contingent of 500 agreed between presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Miguel Díaz Canel.
“I made the decision to hire specialists from abroad and doctors from Cuba are going to come, because health has nothing to do with ideologies, but with human rights. And if we have to bring them from the United States, Russia, Cuba, Japan or France, we are going to have them here,” López Obrador had already declared.
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In an act during his visit to the Rosamorada hospital, in Nayarit, the president supervised the start of activities of the program in which the first 60 Cuban specialists in health services in rural localities will participate.
Eight Cuban doctors were at the ceremony but declined to comment afterward, according to Mexican reporters. According to the dayone of them told that newspaper, without a recorder, “we come to work, not to talk.”
Rosamorada is a rural municipality in the state of Nayarit, almost 800 km from Mexico City.
The act led by López Obrador suffered the absence of the governor of Nayarit, Miguel Angel Navarro, infected with COVID-19.
The Cuban authorities have assured that their massive shipment of doctors abroad is guaranteed after ensuring that the number of services and the quality of these to the Cuban population are not harmed.
The doctors are expected to work in various units in Nayarit, and other groups are expected to work in Colima and Guerrero.
López Obrador wants Cubans to work in rural communities with few medical services and has already criticized local doctors for not wanting to work in rural or marginalized areas. Health personnel have responded that there are areas where they cannot work due to violence.
On June 29, López Obrador announced that his government was seeking to hire doctors from Europe and Cuba to resolve the shortage of health personnel in public hospitals, despite criticism from the opposition.
According to the Spanish agency Ephthe government official made this announcement after the goal of covering almost 14,000 vacancies with the “Recruitment for medical specialists” campaign that the Government launched at the end of May was not reached.
In a first stage, Cuba would send 500 doctors to Mexico after signing a health agreement that he signed on May 8 during his visit to Havana.
Dr. Roberto Tovar Gutiérrez, director of Hospital Care in Nayarit, said that this Monday the doctors from Cuba will begin their duties and that 12 of them will be in Rosamorada.
Mexico seeks doctors from Cuba and Europe to fill vacant positions
This first group of 60 includes specialists in internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology and anesthesiology
Tovar calculated that between 700 or 900 Cuban doctors will be hired because of Nayarit, Colima and other entities continue to work for an indefinite period in remote areas of the country.
He pointed out that Migration gave them a 180-day permit that will be renewable once it is completed. “The idea is that they stay for several years,” Tovar assured according to the local press.
