While hospitals in Cuba face a crisis due to a shortage of doctors, the Caribbean nation has sent 200 specialists to Mexico, who will join the other healthcare professionals already working in the IMSS Bienestar hospitals.
Marcos Rodríguez Costa, the island's ambassador in Mexico, reported on the social network X that the new doctors arrived last Friday at the Felipe Ángeles International Airport.
The diplomat indicated that this healthcare personnel will join their Mexican colleagues in 19 states of Mexico.
Rodríguez boasted that "mutual cooperation for the benefit of both peoples, humanism, and solidarity are the precepts that guide us"; however, this program has been the subject of criticism, as many believe it is a way to finance the regime in Havana with Mexican money.
Recently, Mexico announced that it will increase the number of Cuban doctors hired to work in the country to 3,800, despite the crisis of healthcare professionals affecting the Caribbean island. Currently, 1,200 Cuban doctors work in various IMSS-Bienestar hospitals.
This measure is part of the IMSS-Bienestar program, which aims to improve medical care in 23 Mexican states.
Zoé Robledo Aburto, director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) and responsible for the consolidation of IMSS-Bienestar, stated in an interview with the leftist newspaper La Jornada that this new body faces significant challenges to ensure the operation of medical services and ensure that users receive quality and free care.
However, the recent arrival of ten Cuban specialist doctors in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí has generated dissatisfaction among the residents, a discontent that the government has had to officially acknowledge.
Daniel Acosta Díaz de León, head of IMSS-Bienestar in San Luis Potosí, admitted that the arrival of Cuban doctors has caused discontent among the population, who believe that these positions should be filled by local doctors, according to El Sol de San Luis.
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