2023-08-19 10:00:00
Ernesto Martínez Elorriaga
Correspondent
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, August 19, 2023, p. 13
Morelia, Mich., A group of 100 professors from Cuban Medical Sciences institutions who will work in 55 Benito Juárez Welfare Universities, which will open their doors in 50 Mexican municipalities, arrived yesterday at the Morelia, Michoacán international airport.
Nelson Ocaña, deputy head of mission of the Cuban embassy in the country, was in charge of welcoming the doctors. Currently there are 145 Welfare schools in different parts of the Republic.
However, the universities that will be launched this year will prioritize nursing and medicine careers, given the serious deficit in the country in medical care, as reported.
In the case of Michoacán, 29 Cuban specialists are already working in different hospitals in the municipalities of Lázaro Cárdenas, Zamora, Ciudad Hidalgo, Zitácuaro, La Piedad and Uruapan. They are experts in oncology, nephrology, neurology, cardiology, rheumatology, gastroenterology, otorhinolaryngology, angiology, and vascular surgery.
The Secretary of Health of Michoacán, Elías Torres Ibarra, announced that the arrival of another 781 Cuban specialists is expected to care for rural areas.
He added that the most urgent demands are 91 doctors in internal medicine, 68 in gynecology and obstetrics, 66 anesthesiologists, 66 general surgeons, 56 pediatricians and 13 radiologists.
Throughout the country, 13,000 specialist doctors are needed, but there are none due to errors in government and university plans, especially under the argument that doctors refuse to work in isolated and risky areas.
It is necessary to bring doctors from wherever possible to reach the areas that require them and Cuba has a good level of medical specialties, stressed Elías Torres.
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