Mexico announced the hiring of more doctors of Cuba, after a meeting between both governments to review bilateral relations in this matter during the official visit of the ruler Miguel Diaz-Canel to that country, according to what was reported in the local Mexican press.
“We want to make it known that the approach for the continuation of this agreement is already on the table, now to hire 100 more specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine,” the director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) announced this Saturday in Campeche. , Zoé Robledo Aburto, during the Mexico-Cuba Health IMSS-Wellbeing Bilateral Meeting, according to The Sun of Mexico.
This announcement was announced during the visit of the Cuban president to Mexico, officially invited by the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who asked Díaz-Canel to send more doctors to his country because he needs to complete the staff in health centers in July, the newspaper noted this Saturday The financial.
López Obrador also thanked his counterpart for sending health specialists as support during the COVID-19 pandemic and assured that most likely "we need more."
“It is very likely that we will need more doctors from Cuba and I hope that they will support us with more doctors and specialists. We have a commitment that in July of this year we must have a full staff in health centers and hospitals and we can achieve it if “We continue to count on your support,” said Obrador.
The Mexican president announced this Friday that he would analyze with the Cuban president the possibility of expanding the sending of more Cuban doctors to reinforce the contingent of some 610 which has already been working in Mexico since 2022 and the beginning of this year, in addition to the possibility of acquiring Cuban ballast for the construction of the Mayan Train routes, one of the emblematic works of its Government.
In mid-January it was learned that despite the lack of health personnel in Cuba, The island government would send another 124 doctors to Mexico, to complete a total of 610 destined to work in marginalized areas of that country.
These doctors would work in the areas of Geriatrics, Psychiatry, Allergology and Immunology, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Dermatology and Gastroenterology.
By that date they were already working in Mexico 490 doctors, of which the first group arrived on July 23.
The new ones were 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 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.
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