The nurse Ricardo Rivas denounced “harassment and intimidation at work” by authorities of the health sector in the state of Colima. He evidenced that while the 60 Cuban doctors hired by the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador are given “accommodation, food and transportation,” they asked their fellow countrymen to vacate the “rooms where they slept and the food service was eliminated,” public The Economist.
Rivas, who works at the Antonio González Guevara Civil Hospital, in the city of Tepic, explained that these differences have generated “discomfort among his Mexican colleagues,” since they consider it unfair that some groups of Cuban doctors are even provided “provides” while that they must now find accommodation and pay for transportation, in addition to several receiving a salary of 10,000 Mexican pesos (1,000 dollars) per month.
Mexico agreed with the Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos, SA, a Havana government company internationally accused of human trafficking and forced labor, to provide lodging and food to the island’s health workers. Even so, “some of the Cubans He complained that there was no air conditioning and internet and that he did not like the food,” Rivas told the same Mexican media.
This Thursday the governor of Nayarit, Miguel Ángel Navarro, announced the incorporation of another 33 Cuban doctors to work in the Civil Hospital of Tepic, the Medical Specialty Units for ambulatory surgery and hemodialysis, and the clinics located in the areas of San Francisco, Tondoroque, Compostela and Rosamorada.
“We will see with hospital directors to what extent these specialists are useful, in quotes, because they have refused to treat cases as specialists”
This announcement comes two days after the organization Human Rights Foundation (HRF) will highlight “human trafficking” under the scheme of Cuban medical missions, emphasizing that they are based “on the exploitation of health professionals and serve as an important tool of international propaganda and an important source of income for the repressive communist regime”.
This type of “coercive and retaliatory practices against health professionals to prevent desertion” have been exhibited at the time by international organizations Human Rights Watch and Prisoners Defenders.
In the state of Colima, where 55 Cuban health workers arrived on August 15, their level of preparation and payment of 41,784 pesos (2,042 dollars) per month as specialists were questioned. It has been limited to providing outpatient care, prevention and health promotion services.
“We will see with hospital directors to what extent these specialists are useful, in quotes, because they have refused to treat cases as specialists,” said the leader of Section 30 of the National Union of Workers of the Ministry of Health, Dolores Gonzalez Meza.
According to the governor of Colima, Indira Vizcaíno Silva, these doctors will receive 22,000 pesos per month and two apartment towers in the former military zone, known as the Galvan Complex, were rehabilitated so that they can be located there during their stay in Colima.
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