SLP, Mexico.- A Cuban MSME specialized in cleaning services, production and marketing of cleaning products, offers up to 20,000 Cuban pesos of salary for those who want to join their workforce.
Thus it transcended in a advertisement carried out by ECONOVA SURL, where they specified that they provide cleaning services in different hospitals in Havana and request personnel to work with them.
Among the positions described and as socialized in various publications on social networks since the middle of the year, they offer 20,000 CUP for the position of Head of Services; For occupying an Emerging Supervisor position, they can receive 13,000, and as a Cleaning Assistant, 11,250.
The figures double the salary basic perceived by working doctors in the hospitals where they will offer cleaning services.
“All staff are given gloves, work boots, a uniform, and the materials and cleaning utensils to carry out their work,” the advertisement detailed, providing the telephone numbers of Eunicia Castillo and Yanet for those interested.
In the midst of the job insecurity in which Cuban doctors find themselves, the MSME offer raises the question about the remuneration that doctors receive on the Island.
The hours of study and the cognitive effort that their profession entails do not correspond to the conditions in which they must carry out their work without often having the inputs for it nor with the remuneration received, which prevents them from covering the high cost of living in the country.
After a salary reform introduced in 2021, the salary of a newly graduated doctor became 4,610 pesos per month. This payment increases to 5,060 pesos with residency. Then, upon completion of the specialty, the salary increased to 5,560 pesos.
In 2024, the health sector introduced “improvements” that, with the payment of night guards, the additional payment for exposure and complexity, plus years of service and for “maximum effort”, slightly increased the salary.
Cuban officials developed a salary scale based on seniority. For five years worked, 1,000 pesos per month were increased; for 15, 1,800 and for 30, about 3,000.
With the current inflation in Cubathe increase for those who have been in the sector for three decades will be equivalent to the cost of a egg carton in the informal market.
Payment for night and non-working hours can be added to the amount, from Monday to Friday, between 7:00 pm and 7:00 am, Saturdays from noon and Sundays.
Doctors with two specialties, for example, can earn up to 5,810 pesos per month, which could increase a little if they have teaching and scientific status.
A doctor with a higher degree of specialization, more than 20 years of professional experience, with periodic scientific publications and teaching experience, could receive 7,500 pesos on the Island.
When announcing the “salary improvements,” Maritza Cruz García, Vice Minister of Finance and Prices, said that it was “a fair and necessary measure for the health and education sectors, due to the need we have to stabilize the specialized workforce in those sectors to improve the quality of life and education.”
