The Government of Mexico announced the purchase from Cuba of medicines for anesthesiology, pulmonology, ophthalmology and cancer treatment. According to the Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer Varela, for the “already consolidated” acquisition, the Island will receive 84,425.45 dollars and is part of the new health agreement that was ratified with the visit of Miguel Díaz-Canel to Campeche.
This agreement also contemplates extending the hiring of Cuban specialists. The plan, which has not yet been detailed, foresees that another 100 toilets will arrive in Mexico this year, which will be added to the more than 641 doctors for whom the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador disburses 1,308,922 dollars per month.
The state company Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos SA is in charge of managing the dispatch of doctors. The Cuban government receives $2,042 per month for each specialist, while 1,722 dollars per month for general practitioner services enter its coffers. To health professionals you are only given a stipend in Mexico that they will maintain during the year of service.
Although there are intentions to continue with the purchase of the Abdala vaccine against covid-19, this has not yet been ratified by Mexico. 14ymedio was able to confirm that, of the 9,000,000 doses that are already in the North American country, only less than 3% had been used until last February 7.
Regarding the Cuban specialists who have been distributed in various states, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, he announced this Sunday on his social networks that thanks to these professionals “162,000 Mexican lives have been saved”. With those words he fired Díaz-Canel.
Although there are intentions to continue with the purchase of the Abdala vaccine against covid-19, this has not yet been ratified by Mexico
However, one day before the enthusiasm of the Mexican foreign minister, the data provided by the Mexican Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer Varela, reveals something else. Cubans had provided 242,000 services as of Friday, of which, he stressed, 110,246 were specialty consultations.
When detailing part of the activities of the doctors in Mexico, the Secretary of Health Jorge Alcocer explained that the Cubans “have coordinated laboratory services,” that is, they have taken samples to carry out 46,191 clinical analyzes and 41,418 taking plates for studies. radiological.
In June 2022, a report by LatinusUS revealed that Cuban doctors who arrived in Mexico during the pandemic, limited themselves to “making beds, taking vital signs, conducting surveys, as well as giving patients sponges to bathe.” This contrasted with the triumphalism of the Cuban authorities, who even claimed the decrease in mortality caused by the coronavirus in Mexico.
The general director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, explained that the Cubans who have arrived in Mexico have specialties in internal medicine, pediatrics, general surgery, family medicine, ophthalmology, nephrology, intensive care, imaging, cardiology , dermatology and otorhinolaryngology.
Robledo mentioned that the doctors are currently in large general and civil hospitals, as well as in small community health centers “where their arrival often meant the first time that there was a medical specialist on staff.”
“We condemn the fact that the president of Mexico turns a deaf ear to the repression that the citizens of Cuba endure on a daily basis”
He mentioned that they are available in the most remote areas such as La Mesa del Nayar (Nayarit), the Costa Chica (Oaxaca), the desert of Baja California Sur, Cananea (Sonora), Tlaxcala, Colima, Tierra Caliente (Michoacán), in the Huasteca Alta (Veracruz), in Zacatecas, Morelos, Campeche and La Montaña de Guerrero, where 11 specialists arrived just this Sunday to have a group of 29.
On the other hand, to the outrage it caused among politicians and the media Mexicans the delivery to Miguel Díaz-Canel of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, created in 1933 to distinguish foreigners outstanding for their humanitarian services, was joined by a group of people who define themselves as “sympathizers of a democratic, liberal and institutional left”. .
“There are no ‘acceptable dictatorships of the left’ and ‘abhorrent dictatorships of the right,'” they stated in a public statement, signed among others by militants of the opposition Movimiento Ciudadano party, including Martha Tagle Martínez, as well as the Partido de la Democratic Revolution, Cecilia Soto González, and the academics, Diego Petersen Farah, José Woldenberg, the Cuban academic, based in Mexico, Armando Chaguaceda, among others.
“We condemn the fact that the president of Mexico turns a deaf ear to the repression that Cuban citizens endure on a daily basis and even hangs on the chest of the Cuban dictator the highest distinction that a foreigner can receive from our country,” the signatories endorsed.
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