A new study by the International Organization for Migration (OIM) revealed that Venezuelan doctors they are strengthening the health system abroad.
According to the investigation, Venezuelan doctors help alleviate the shortage of health professionals in Latin American countries, including Argentina.
Many of the 145,000 Venezuelans currently living in that country are trained as nurses and doctors. In fact, there are 16 Argentine provinces where Venezuelan doctors are already certified to work, with more than 200 medical professionals in the province of Buenos Aires alone, and a smaller number in Jujuy, Chubut and Córdoba. There are even Venezuelans who work in the public health system as far south as Tierra del Fuego, the study notes.
Venezuelan doctors in the world
He also points out that in the case of Colombia, many work for ambulance companies. This is the lowest paid branch of medicine with the most difficult conditions. However, a doctor there claims that he is earning 800 times the minimum wage in Venezuela.
As far as Chile is concerned, immigrants are allowed to work in public hospitals in high-need areas while on a temporary permit.
For their part, Venezuelan doctors rank second in the index for foreigners to practice their profession in Spain, according to the General Council of Official Medical Associations of that country.
