MADRID, Spain.- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) asked the Cuban government to extend the agreement signed with the Havana regime on the hiring of Cuban doctors.
“It is very likely that we need more doctors, more specialists from Cuba. Here, where they don’t listen to us and don’t see us, well, I’ll make it known once and for all: I hope they support us with more doctors, with more specialists, because we have a commitment that by July of this year we must have all the staff in health centers and hospitals, and we can achieve it if we continue to count on your support,” said López Obrador during the visit of President Miguel Díaz-Canel to the Aztec country this weekend.
For his part, the director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, quoted by the local media The universal, indicated: “The proposal for the continuation of this agreement is already on the table, now to manage to hire 100 more specialists in comprehensive general medicine, a very particular and very necessary specialty, similar to our Social Security family medicine, but also with a great contribution to the training that these doctors have in the emergency room”.
Robledo specified that by virtue of this agreement, 610 Cuban doctors are already in Mexico. The last group, of 61 specialists, arrived on February 10; while in Cuba there is an increasing shortage of health personnel.
Since the sending of Cuban doctors to Mexico was announced, the agreement has generated great controversy. Opponents of the AMLO government have questioned it for financing the Havana dictatorship receiving those health professionals who are exploited.
Last August the newspaper The financial revealed that the Cuban regime would be charging 1,177,300 euros per month, the equivalent of 1,195,936 dollars, for the doctors sent to Mexico.
Just as it has been criticized by Mexican schools that consider it an insult to local professionals who are out of work.
