MIAMI, United States. — The massive hiring of Cuban doctors in Mexico does not stop. This Tuesday, the director of the National Social Security Institute, Zoé Robledo, reported the arrival of another 119 doctors from the Island, who will arrive in the Aztec country in January 2023 to provide specialized services.
The announcement was made during the morning press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the National Palace, dedicated today to health issues.
state agency Latin Press points out that Robledo referred to the new group of doctors during a count of Cuban doctors hired to work in the country.
According to the Mexican official, 491 specialists from the Island are scattered “in very difficult and marginal places” in 11 states, helping to offer medical coverage “every day and at all hours.”
Robledo has stressed on several occasions that collaboration with Cuba through the Ministry of Health has been vital since the agreement was signed on July 20.
“In those places before there were no specialties because they were areas of very difficult coverage for internal medicine, pediatrics, cardiology, ENT, trauma, orthopedics, hemophilia, anesthesia, and emergencies, among others,” added the official.
The director of the National Social Security Institute explained that the call for medical contracts is not limited to Cubans, but that there is an international call to which 994 doctors from numerous countries have already responded, including Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and the United States. Joined.
Last September, 277 Cuban doctors arrived in Mexico as part of the agreement between the AMLO government and the Miguel Díaz-Canel regime to address the deficit of health personnel.
The hiring of Cuban doctors in that country has generated numerous criticisms from medical colleges that consider the initiative an insult to local professionals.
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