Ministry of Health denies that there is a ban on doctors leaving in Cuba

The Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) of Cuba denied this Friday that there are new regulations for the entry or exit of the country of workers in the sector.

The head of the Communication Department of that entity of the regime, Georgina Pérez Álvarez, published on Twitter that "there are no new regulations for the entry or exit of the country of workers in the Health sector."

Likewise, he emphasized that "any information that circulates on this topic that is not published through the official channels of the MINSAP is false."

The official refers to an audio that circulates on WhatsApp on the island where apparently a woman calls another from the airport and explains that doctors in the country or those based abroad but who maintain residence on the island are prohibited from exit.

He gives the example of a Cuban doctor who had supposedly been in Chile for four years and who was not able to board his flight on the COPA airline, where they would have explained to him that the measure was due to the shortage of doctors in the country.

Despite the lack of doctors on the island, where more than12,000 doctors left the Public Health System of Cuba in 2022, in a context where the unfortunate crisis of the health system has forced many doctors to give up their profession, the regime continues to export them.

Criticism of the government rains down. Residents on the island denounce that whilehundreds of doctors are sent on missions that increase the accounts of the Cuban regime, on the island patients wait in lines and suffer from the lack of supplies to achieve adequate treatment.