A group of 12 Cuban doctors arrived in the Maldives this Sunday, to join the 16 who arrived on June 29. Thus, the Island specifies one more destination for the export of its medical brigades pointed out by Cuban Prisoners Defenders (CPD) for being “a business” for the regime and a way of “slavery” for toilets.
This Sunday, Latin Press published that the doctors “will provide their services immediately in several places in the Maldives, among these the most distant,” according to what was declared by the Cuban ambassador, Andrés González.
The Cuban health workers were received at the Velana international airport by the Cuban ambassador, the Minister of Health of Maldives, Ahmed Naseem, and the Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry, Shiuneen Rasheed.
This medical brigade is part of the agreement reached last year between the Ministries of Health of both countries and that guarantees the “recruitment of health professionals”, according to the Ministry of Health of Maldives, an island country located in the Indian Ocean.
According to the health agency, the agreement will also allow the development of human resources in the Maldivian health sector, “testing of pharmaceutical products, food samples, microbiological, chemical and environmental laboratory services.”
As in other agreements, such as the one with Mexico for the hiring of 500 Cuban doctors, the regime has not made public the details of the money that the Government of the Island will receive.
As in other agreements, such as the one signed with Mexico to the hiring of 500 Cuban doctorsthe regime has not made public the details of the money that the Island Government will receive. In April, the Maldives Minister of Health, Ahmed Naseem, acknowledged that the health sector was going through a server crisis after the abandonment of foreign doctors who returned to their country during the covid-19 pandemic.
“The number of doctors and administrative staff in local hospitals is inadequate,” Naseem accepted to the local environment Avas. In the same publication he announced the arrival of 26 Cuban specialists but did not share the activities and the length of stay.
Medical brigades have been questioned in some countries. In Venezuela, the national leader of the Christian Democratic Party of Venezuela (Copei), Enrique Naime, recently accused them of “breaking the health system.”
The Venezuelan opponent reminded the Mexican newspaper The universal than an exchange of “doctors for oil” that was initiated with Hugo Chávez and has been maintained with Nicolás Maduro. This agreement, he stated, marked the exodus of 7 million doctors to the United States, Colombia and other nations in search of employment.
In Mexico, a report confirmed last June that the specialist brigades that arrived as support during the pandemic, they limited themselves to “making bedstake vital signs, conduct surveys, in addition to sponging patients to bathe”.
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