The doctor specializing in genetics, Ana Cecilia Jara Ettinger, has published a series of videos in which she criticizes the Mexican government’s decision to hire Cuban doctors and highlights the shortcomings experienced by her colleagues in Mexico.
However, her speech has also generated opinions once morest her, especially from those who endorse the criticism of the medical sector for not occupying the available spaces (according to the federal government), and personal, for being the daughter of former Michoacan governor Salvador Jara.
The graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) was active on her social networks following uploading a couple of videos in which criticizes the announcement made by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The first video has 1.4 million views and the second more than 125 thousand.
This Monday, the president announced the hiring of 500 Cuban doctors arguing that in Mexico “we don’t have doctorsbecause the system of corruption (…) stopped investing in public education and wanted to privatize education and that is why they invented the admission exams”.
During his morning conference, the President pointed out that there is a “smear” campaign by doctors, conservative clinics and laboratories that are once morest “free” in the health sector.
In her first video, Ana Cecilia responded to López Obrador: “There are no vacancies, there is not a single plaza where I can work.”
He stressed that he studied medicine for 7 years, that he has a specialty in medical genetics and a high specialty in perinatal genetics. “I am one of many more.”
He added that colleagues with a specialty in general surgery or pediatrics are facing the same problem“there is no job”.
He also addressed the President regarding his position on insufficient medical personnel in Mexico. “I can tell you that there are many doctors and specialists, we are on waiting lists“.
This material triggered the support of those who agree with her position, but also a series of criticisms, particularly punctilious among those who highlight that she is the daughter of a former PRI president (associating her with the negative aspects that they attribute to her father, such as personal benefits, alleged corruption and government errors).
This Tuesday, the doctor He said that he has received hate messages that try to discredit his messagedue to his relationship with the former governor.
He reported that he set up an internet page to register doctors waiting for a position, which obtained more than 1,300 registrations in his first hours of life.
“This is not regarding me,” said the doctor in the second video, “and that my voice seemed uncomfortable to them is valid, but it is regarding all the doctors” who are waiting to get a place in the institutions of State Health.
