Two Mexican hospitals will be rehabilitated to receive Cuban doctors.

The governor of the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, Ricardo Gallardo, announced that two hospitals will be refurbished to accommodate 80 new Cuban doctors, continuing with the controversial hiring of healthcare professionals from the Caribbean island, a measure that has generated considerable unrest in the region.

According to Gallardo, with the arrival of the Cuban doctors who will join the Mexican doctors, the care for families will improve, as reported by Noticiero Edición 21 Rioverde.

The governor of San Luis Potosí indicated that, with the Cuban doctors, hospitals will have specialists from different areas, and presented this hiring as an achievement in medical care in the state and health services provided to the population, despite local doctors having protested these agreements between Cuba and Mexico.

Gallardo explained that they will rehabilitate two hospitals, starting with the one in Ríoverde and then continuing with the one in Ciudad Valles.

Regarding the first one, he said that it is practically finished: "With over 200 million pesos invested, with a top-level team, a CT scanner that surpasses the one at the Central Hospital, due to technological innovation, with newer magnetic resonances, we are currently working on exteriors, all surgeries had to be transferred to the capital of San Luis Potosí."

Last May, the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez held a meeting with Zoé Robledo Aburto, general director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), to finalize the agreements related to the contract for 1,200 Cuban doctors in Mexico.

The meeting focused on strengthening medical cooperation between Cuba and Mexico. The goal of both governments is to sign an unprecedented contract.

However, the initiative, although presented as a solution to the shortage of medical personnel in the most rural regions of Mexico, has faced criticism among healthcare professionals.

Recently, the president-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced that she met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, and stated that she will continue to hire doctors from the Caribbean island, despite strong criticisms that describe this program as a way of financing the dictatorial Cuban regime.

During the meeting, Sheinbaum said that they discussed various topics, including the possibility of continuing to bring Cuban doctors to Mexico, at least during the first year of her administration (2024-2030), reported the EFE agency.

"We met with the Cuban chancellor, they know that Cuba is a sister nation, and we talked, for example, about the support they are giving us with the Cuban doctors, being able to maintain it for the next year, and some other important issues in the Mexico-Cuba relationship," stated Sheinbaum.