And cuban surgeon joined a group of professionals of different nationalities, mostly Latinos, in a demonstration in front of the Social Security offices in Valencia, Spain, to demand the homologation of their titles university students and the validity of their studies in that European nation.
According to the Valencian portal Levante, the Cuban doctor identified as Marcos survives in jobs that “Spanish people don't want, like cleaning houses or caring for the elderly,” while the health personnel crisis worsens in Spain.
He, along with his countryman Yanaris, He studied medicine at the University of Havana and, after emigrating to Spain, he paid the corresponding fees to the Ministry of Education, two years ago, to have his degree approved and to be able to start working.
He is not aware of this process because “to date no one has responded or knows how his approval is going,” the report states.
Both doctors join a list of similar stories that They demand more agility for their integration process into the Spanish labor market. The data presented in Levante, indicate that the personnel of the Spanish Ministry of Education that deals with the issue is insufficient because “accumulates 34,200 files pending resolution in the drawers, and although it outputs 2,500 a month, 3,000 enter”.
These figures also show the hopelessness suffered by both Marcos and Yanaris and the other professionals involved in this situation. Three years ago, he Cuban doctor Cristóbal Franquelo, associate specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Osakidetza-Basque Health Service, based in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, proposed the campaign "NOW approve thousands of doctors who hope to be able to work".
The request, made through the platform Change.org, describes that “thousands of doctors are waiting to have the medical studies they have done in other countries approved.” Its objective does not seem to be lost over time.
Furthermore, he points out that this happens “while the political class does not stop repeating the mantra that there is a lack of doctors in Spain, especially in primary care in most communities, with Madrid in the spotlight.”
Likewise, in the case of doctors who decide to leave Cuba, in addition to these conditions, the legalization of their university degrees goes through an extremely cumbersome process.
According to Resolution 4 of 2023 of the Ministry of Justice, Cuban doctors who apply for their university papers in Cuba have to pay 6,250 CUP for each of the following documents: notes, thematic plan, authorization to practice the profession and certification of legal competence and sick leave from work or teaching.
These four documents add up 25,000 CUP. The university degree itself only needs to be legalized before the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) and before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX), but they would be 5,000 CUP more and 40 CUP for stamps. All this in the middle of a serious crisis in the country to acquire the required physical stamps.
Besides, The Cuban government has persistent surveillance over Cuban health personnel, protected by the decree laws 302 and 306 amendments to Law 1312 “Immigration Law”, which establish the limitations of entry and exit from Cuba for all Cubans, with special emphasis on health personnel and, in general, highly qualified personnel.
Among them, “higher education graduates who carry out vital activities for the economic, social and scientific-technical development of the country in strategic programs, research projects and health services,” stipulates the first article, subsection b of the Decree-Law. 306.
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