2023-05-29 12:14:00
Mexico City.- Until the next six-year term, it will be possible to know the public spending destined for the salaries of Cuban doctors brought to Mexico.
With the argument that it is national security information that might even undermine the conduct of international relations, the federal government reserved the amounts paid for five years.
The Ministry of Health (Ssa) linked the contract of the Cuban doctors to the file for the purchase of the anti-Covid-19 Abdala vaccine, which had previously also been reserved.
“The information requested (the payment to the Cuban doctors) is part of the contract for the acquisition of the Abdala vaccine; a file that is reserved and given that to this day there are still causes that gave rise to the classification of the aforementioned information, therefore the required information cannot be provided,” Ssa responded to a request made through the INAI.
On May 8, 2022, during the visit of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to Havana, Mexico and Cuba signed a cooperation agreement for the training of specialist doctors, the purchase of medicines and vaccines, and the sending of 500 Cuban doctors to Mexico.
On April 15, in Juchitán, Oaxaca, AMLO said that 600 doctors had arrived and that 600 more would arrive.
But so far only partial payments of what has been paid have been revealed.
Last October, for example, the Superior Audit Office of the Federation reported that ISSSTE paid 40 million pesos to the Cuban Ministry of Health for the work of 196 doctors who provided their services in 2021 at the Tláhuac General Hospital, in CDMX.
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