MEXICO CITY.- In addition to the Cuban doctors who already work in the country, thanks to a agreement between the governments of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Miguel Díaz-Canel Another 2,700 island professionals will arrive to work in Mexican territory.
At today’s morning conference, IMSS director Zoé Robledo Aburto recalled that in Mexico 950 Cuban specialist doctors are already working in 23 states from the country.
Where will Cuban doctors work in Mexico?
“This agreement will strengthen the operation of 282 basic, community and comprehensive hospitals located in rural or highly marginalized areas.”
According to the official, the health workers incorporated will cover core specialtiesincluding internal medicine, pediatrics, and emergency medicine.
“In this way, the workforce will increase from four doctors to an average of 12 in priority hospitals, where surgical interventions can now be carried out with a full staff,” he explained.
“That will avoid something that generates a lot of frustration among people in these basic and community hospitals that are in very remote areas,” he said.
On the progress of the program “The clinic is ours”he said that it covers 27 entities that have joined the federalization and Coahuila, Yucatán and Durango.
AMLO thanks “the support of the Cuban government”
For his part, López Obrador thanked the Díaz-Canel government for its support.
“Thank you very much for the Support from the people and government of Cuba because they are helping us, sending us specialist doctors,” he said.
The hiring of Cuban doctors in Mexico generated criticism from the oppositionEven Xóchitl Gálvez, senator and former presidential candidate, promised in her campaign that, if she won, her government would not hire these workers.
Why does Mexico hire doctors from Cuba?
The government of Lopez Obrador Justifies the hiring of Cuban doctors with the argument that Mexico has 2.4 doctors per 1,000 inhabitants.
This index is higher than the average of 2 per 1,000 inhabitants of Latin America, but lower than the average of 3.5 of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
In addition, the AMLO administration points out that Mexican doctors do not want to work in rural areas or marginalized, although health personnel respond that there are areas in which They cannot work because of violence.
With information from EFE and El Universal
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2024-07-30 05:00:01
