The Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) assured that it is working with the Cuban government to expand the collaboration of doctors to reach unprecedented levels.
"We are working together to expand the collaboration of Cuban doctors in IMSS-Bienestar hospitals with the intention ofreach 1,200 specialists"said theIMSS. The extension of contracts to Cuban doctors occurs in the midst of an acute crisis in the public health system in Cuba.
The general director of Social Security, Zoé Robledo, highlighted that the link between the governments of Mexico and Cuba has allowed the arrival of medical brigades to work in health units and hospitals of the Decentralized Public Body, in areas with difficult coverage.
The IMSS has doubled the number of scholarships and locations in specialties such as Emergencies. They claim to have the conditions to have the specialist doctors that are required.
In March they hired 7,400 health professionals. In addition, they intend to incorporate the specialty of Family Medicine in the First Level of care, and there they will rely especially on Cubans.
The Minister of Public Health of Cuba,José Ángel Portal Miranda, participated in the meeting and noted that768 Cuban doctors They support the Mexican health sector.
In a short time theCuban government will send more specialist doctors until reaching 1,200 hired in the Aztec country. The first group, of 123 Family Medicine doctors, should arrive in the next few days.
"This is going to be good in the path that you have proposed to protect hospitals and in the future, as you are projecting, to strengthen primary care and our specialist doctors have training in Family Medicine that allows them to face the complex activities linked to Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Emergencies," said Portal Miranda.
These statements by the Cuban health minister come at a time when the island's hospitals show obvious signs of collapse.
There are no medications, no technological equipment for the treatment of patients, no surgical material, no plaster to treat fractures, and if that were not enough, there is a shortage of doctors in many territories of the country.
Despite this harsh reality suffered by the people of the island, Portal Miranda added that the government also intends to expand collaboration with Mexico on issues of academic and scientific development, clinical area and research, innovative medicines and clinical trials.
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