Mexican doctor questions his government for hiring Cuban doctors

The Mexican doctor Francisco Moreno, who previously held the position of chief of medicine at the renowned ABC Medical Center in Mexico City, This Monday he criticized his government for hiring Cuban doctors without verifying the quality and training of said professionals.

During a television broadcast The financial, Moreno denounced that the Mexican government hired the Cuban doctors without taking into account “an approval of the studies carried out,” warning that it is not known “what their true capacity is.”

However, he stressed that, contradictorily, Mexican doctors are required to have a large number of documents to be able to practice the profession, while The government does not ask the Cubans for anything.

“They are receiving doctors who, according to one totally dictatorial government"They are capable of working or caring for the population," said Moreno, who pointed out to the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador as guilty of putting the health of the people in the hands of professionals whose academic knowledge is unknown.

In contrast, in the country there are unemployed professionals because they do not have opportunities to practice, the doctor said during the interview with The financial.

He noted that Mexican doctors do not want to go to work in remote areas due to security problems.

Furthermore, he denounced that the high salary that Cuban professionals receive “It seems more like financing the dictatorship” and that they are also much larger than those received by Mexican doctors.

“What they are giving to the medical union is a slap in the face,” said Moreno, who explained that the nationals faced the crisis caused by Covid, with Mexico being the country that lost the most health personnel during the pandemic.

“And this is the way in which the government thanks us,” said the professional, alluding to the announcement by the Mexican government of the hiring of Cuban doctors.

Recently, the opposition candidate for the presidency of Mexico, Xóchitl Gálvez, declared that will end the hiring of Cuban doctors if she is victorious in the elections on June 2.

"In my administration, we will not continue resorting to Cuban doctors. In Mexico, we have great medical capacity and talent," Gálvez stressed in several publications on his official account on the red social X.

He denounced that "the hiring of Cuban doctors has only served to cover up the financing of an authoritarian regime" by governments such as that of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Last April, the Medical College of Honduras (CMH) made a public statement regarding the work of Cuban doctors in the country, firmly rejecting their professional activity, since believes that they do not comply with the requirements of the law.

Samuel Santos, president of the CMH, declared that the entity does not endorse the work of that brigade by failing to comply with three aspects: temporality, documentation in order and free service, reported the local media At the Tribune.