Despite the lack of health personnel in Cuba, the government will send another 124 doctors to Mexico, which will complete a total of 610 destined to work in marginalized areas.
The general director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, revealed this Tuesday during the president's daily press conference that on January 27, the 124 Cuban doctors will arrive to work in marginalized areas of 12 states of the country.
The doctors will work in the areas of Geriatrics, Psychiatry, Allergology and Immunology, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Dermatology and Gastroenterology.
In Mexico they were already working 490 doctors, of which the first group arrived on July 23.
The new ones will be sent to 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.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had announced the hiring of 500 Cuban doctors to fill vacant positions in remote or difficult-to-access towns, despite strong rejection from the union in Mexico and members of the opposition. The hiring expanded to 610.
Meanwhile, in Cuba, several provinces recognized last year a deterioration in health indicators as a result of the lack of doctors and nurses.
In November of last year Liván Izquierdo Alonso, first secretary of the Party in Ciego de Ávila, said that the drastic drop in health indicators in the territory began from Primary Health Care (PHC), the so-called family clinics, 29 Of which they have problems with the premises, 46 are missing nurses and 36 are missing doctors.
Likewise, he stated that in the province there are 504 vacant nursing positions, of which 160 belong to the Roberto Rodríguez Provincial General Teaching Hospital.
Prioritized programs such as Maternal and Child, arboviruses, the fight against cancer, the training of specialists in secondary care, the teaching categorization of professionals and PHC have been left relegated due to lack of personnel.
The deficient health care is evident in the growth of breast cancer and the non-compliance with the cytological test index in that territory of central Cuba.
When the official raised this problem, the national government had announced that almost 500 doctors would be sent to Italy and there they will be able to opt for permanent contracts in exchange for a monthly payment to the Havana regime of 4,700 euros per month for each one.
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