A new group of 33 Cuban doctors traveled this Saturday to Mexico as part of the health agreement signed between the governments of both nations, official media on the island reported.
Most of the group made up of 18 men and 15 women has “extensive experience in other missions” because they have “collaborated” in two or more countries, said a report from the national television news, reviewed by the Efe agency.
The 33 Cubans will work together with other colleagues of theirs who are already in the country integrated into the health plan in charge of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) and Welfare.
The agreement signed last May during the visit of the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador to Havanacontemplates in a first stage the sending of 500 Cuban doctors to the Aztec nation with the objective of guaranteeing its citizens a universal health plan.
The agreement entered into force from the date of its signing, is valid for two years, may be modified by mutual consent or may be terminated at any time by written notification addressed ninety days in advance, recalls the Spanish agency.
Last Friday, another group of 49 Cuban doctors from various specialties arrived in the state of Campeche, in Mexico, also as part of the aforementioned health agreement, says a office of the Prensa Latina (PL) agency.
Upon their arrival in the Central American nation, the doctors were received by the governor of the state, Layda Sansores, who welcomed them “with warm words of praise,” indicates that medium.
Upon receiving them, the official affirmed that “they come to support the government’s efforts to provide health for all, especially the most humble Mexicans in remote areas where there is a total, almost total absence of doctors.”
According to reports, the Cuban medical contingent already has more than a hundred specialists in the states of Nayarit and Tlaxcala, where they are already working to promote the program designed by the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
In his usual morning press conference, the president reiterated that Cuban doctors will continue to be hired “even if it hurts conservative politicians, because the purpose is to offer free, high-quality medical care to all Mexicans and reach the entire country with that service.” country”.
In addition, the Mexican government ad recently the purchase from Cuba of 9 million doses of the Cuban vaccine Abdala to immunize children between 5 and 11 years of age against COVID-19.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of Cuban doctors provided services in hospitals in the Mexican capital under contracts that generated controversy due to their costs and the activities they carried out.
The controversy is now also growing because local medical colleges question the contract for Cubans when there are Mexican specialists without a position.
López Obrador justified that there are vacancies in the Mexican Institute of Social Security and in the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers, but that the specialists do not take them because they are in rural and marginalized areas.
Efe/OnCuba
