A new group of at least a hundred Cuban doctors traveled to Mexico this Friday to join those who already provide services in the country as part of the health agreement signed between the two governments.
Marcos Rodríguez Costa, Cuban ambassador to Mexico, announced on his Twitter account that bilateral cooperation "continues to expand", in order to continue increasing the number of doctors sent by the Havana regime from 2022.
"We received a new group of Cuban medical specialists who will join us to work alongside Mexican brothers to strengthen healthcare work in several states," wrote the Cuban diplomatic headquarters in Mexico.
As the country goes through a pressing crisis of its health system, due, mainly, to the lack of supplies, medicines and personal, the regime sends a large number of specialists to the Mexican nation as part of the agreement between the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) and Cuban Medical Services.
At the beginning of this year, the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, an ally of the Havana regime, warned that would hire more doctors from Cuba.
The doctors would be destined to work in marginalized areas of that country in the areas of Geriatrics, Psychiatry, Allergology and Immunology, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Dermatology and Gastroenterology.
The objective would be to expand the sending of more doctors to reinforce the contingent of about 610 that has already been working in Mexico since 2022.
Through various strategies to recruit doctors, the Mexican government specified that a new hiring almost would double the figure of 610 doctors.
At least 1,232 were recruited in calls launched from May 24 to August 20, 2022; and 610 specialists arrived in the nation through the agreement with Cuban Medical Services.
The group sent in March were located in intricate areas of Guerrero, Colima, Tlaxcala, Michoacán, Morelos, Oaxaca, Campeche, Veracruz, Nayarit, Zacatecas and Sonora. Many of these states have the worst violence rates in the country.
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