More than 600 Cuban doctors They cover positions in the public sector of the Health in Mexico, according to official data from the Mexican government.
The general director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoé Robledo Aburto reported this Tuesday in the usual morning press conference of the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador that in the country there are a total of 620 Cuban doctors working in 12 states of the Republic, after the arrival of another 68 specialists in the last week of January.
“Since 2022, 552 Cuban doctors have arrived in our country and on January 27, 68 more arrived. "They are specialists who have already moved to the hospitals where they will provide services in Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán, Morelos, Tlaxcala, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Nayarit, Zacatecas and Sonora," he noted in his speech before the Mexican media. Robledo Aburto.
The director of the Mexican IMSS also pointed out that in the last group of Cuban doctors there are specialists in geriatrics and gerontology, dermatology, allergology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, ophthalmology, general surgery, cardiology and internal medicine.
He also commented that this number of specialists marks the conclusion of the first stage of the collaboration agreement with Cuban Medical Services to support the strengthening of the public health system in that country.
Likewise, he reported on the progress of the national call launched between January 3 and 17 to fill 1,535 vacancies for general practitioners and 2,195 for nursing in the states of Nayarit, Colima, Sonora, Sinaloa, Veracruz and Michoacán.
He assured that “we had a reception, everyone was covered. All positions have applicants, we are in the stage of validating the documents, reviewing them to begin the selection processes, exams and notifications of those who have been accredited."
This last part of the evaluation will be carried out throughout the month of February to begin hiring and begin working with the doctors in their new positions as of March 1, detailed the head of the IMSS while emphasizing that these positions are located “in remote and highly marginalized places that are difficult to access.”
At the end of last December, the Mexican government assured that it would hire more Cuban doctors by 2023 to meet President López Obrador's promise of “free healthcare” for all.
Last October it was known that The Mexican government will pay the salaries of Cuban medical specialists who work in remote areas of that country through the Cuban Ministry of Public Health and Cuban Medical Services.
The general director of IMSS clarified on that occasion that the salary of Cuban doctors was going to be “processed with communication with the Cuban Ministry of Health and Cuban Medical Services with whom we have the agreement,” although 83 Venezuelan specialists, 21 Colombians, 14 Nicaraguans, 12 Bolivians, 8 Ecuadorians, 6 Peruvians and 25 from other nationalities such as the United States, Paraguay and Argentina, who will work for a year in 54 hospitals in disadvantaged areas of Mexico, would directly receive 53,569 pesos per month (around $2,600).
In addition, he said that the Mexican State would cover round-trip plane tickets to their countries of origin, transportation to places of residence, food, lodging, bonuses, and payment for immigration procedures and academic validation of these professionals.
In early August 2022, a document leaked to the Mexican press revealed that That government pays the Havana regime more than a million dollars a month for the hiring of 610 Cuban doctors.
The agreement signed between the IMSS (Mexican Social Security Institute) and the so-called Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos, SA, contemplates the payment to the Miguel Díaz-Canel regime of a fee of 1,177,300 dollars per month, at a fixed exchange rate of 20.70 pesos for every dollar for one year.
In addition, it was learned that the IMSS had to deposit 50% of the amount of the first monthly payment as an advance to guarantee the first group of doctors who arrived on Aztec soil the minimum conditions for their stay.
In June, a Cuban doctor living in Mexico assured that the island's colleagues hired by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador are likely to lose more than 80% of their salaries.
Belkis Trimiño Chantez, who runs a private practice in Puebla, said that the hiring of Cuban doctors announced by President López Obrador also goes against what is established by law regarding migration and professional practice in the field of medicine. .
Likewise, he commented that many of his compatriots are forced to accept these missions out of desperation to earn income and support their families.
Some institutions such as the College of Surgeons in the city of La Paz, in Baja California Sur (BCS) They question the arrival of Cuban specialists and they believe that it is an unnecessary measure. José Efraín Torres Valdos, vice president of the College, said that they do not know what the real objective of this project is.
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