Mexico rejects around twenty Cuban doctors for lacking a professional license

Mexican authorities in the Mexican state of Morelos rejected around twentydoctors sent by the Cuban regime for lacking the corresponding professional licenses.

This was reported by the president of the Federated Colleges of Medicine of Morelos A.C,María Reyna Bárcenas Hurtado. According toCuautla NewsSince last January, specialist doctors from Cuba should have been working in the state.

However, the lack of required documentation led state authorities to not include Cuban doctors in the IMSS-Bienestar program in Morelos.

Since last January, about 12 specialist doctors from Cuba who were supposed to operate in Morelos in the public hospitals of the municipalities of Axochiapan, Ocuituco, Temixco and Tetecala, but are not yet in office, Bárcenas Hurtado said in an interview.

Likewise, he reported that the National Union of Health Workers in Morelos (Section 29) reported that the Cuban doctors did not accredit their specialty. In addition, they do not have the required documentation, so they were not hired for the regional hospitals of Morelos included in the IMSS-Bienestar scheme.

The situation of the Cuban doctors in Morelos becomes public just after a month sinceThe Mexican government announced the hiring of more Cuban doctors, in an effort that will almost double the number of 610 doctors sent by the Havana regime since 2022.

"We have just received the great news that we are going to be able to expand this number of Cuban doctors almost double with 600 more doctors, with Cuban Health Services," he said in mid-March.Zoe Robledo, general director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).

In statements to the independent media14 interveneBárcenas Hurtado pointed out that "around 20 Cuban health workers" have already been returned to Mexico City.

The official indicated that it had been proven that the specialty of the Cuban doctors "did not correspond to what was required in these hospitals, especially in the Temixco regional one," but also in health centers in Axochiapan, Ocuituco and Tetecala.

For its part,Gil Magadan Salazar, leader of the union of the Ministry of Health, denounced that the Cuban specialists "did not have experience" and stressed that "the official Mexican standard requires that doctors have their professional license to practice, and it is a requirement that they do not meet because they have not processed the apostille of their documents issued in Cuba".

According to the aforementioned media, Magadán Salazar spoke of three cases: "one said he was an anesthesiologist, but he did not want to enter due to a blockade, we have a dermatologist who has not given consultation and the others seem to be gerontologists, areas that we do not require."

For this reason, the authorities enrolled them in a training program, but according to Bárcenas Hurtado, the specialists "arranged to go to talks but never showed up."

Regarding the fate of these specialists, the official indicated that it is up to the federal authorities to announce what will happen to the Cuban doctors. However, as revealed14 intervene, The Mexican government would continue paying Cuba for these doctors.

Despite the opinion of the Morelos Health Secretariat Union indicating that Cuban health workers "should not be hired" due to the lack of certification, a source confirmed to the independent media that"no payment has been stopped" to the Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos, S.A., involved in complaints about human trafficking.

Last July, the coordinator of the National Action Party (PAN) in the Senate denounced that the AMLO administration would pay the Cuban regime a total of 437 thousand Mexican pesos per doctor for three months.The figure would be equivalent to about 145 thousand pesos (more than 8 thousand dollars) per month for each doctor sent from the Island.

A month later, a document leaked by the local newspaperThe financial revealed that the Mexican government would pay the Havana regimemore than a million dollars per month for the hiring of 610 Cuban doctors.

According to an article signed by the Mexican journalist Lourdes Mendoza, the agreement signed between the IMSS and the so-called Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos, SA, contemplates "the payment to theMiguel Diaz-Canel of a 'modest' fee of 1,177,300 dollars per month", at a fixed exchange rate of 20.70 pesos for each dollar and for one year.