Public health continues to be an important source of funding for the Cuban regime, as demonstrated by the recent announcement from the Honduran government, which will pay more than one million dollars to train 170 doctors in 23 specialties on the Caribbean island.
A video that is circulating on social media explains that the government of Xiomara Castro will send 170 doctors to study in Cuba through the Solidarity Scholarships program, for which it will pay the regime in Havana the amount of 30 million lempiras (approximately 1.2 million dollars).
The doctors were selected from the 18 departments of Honduras, focusing on their proximity to the communities where the eight hospitals planned during the administration of President Xiomara Castro will be built.
However, the regime's financing also includes the misnamed "medical missions."
In last February, the Honduran Medical College (CMH) denounced salary privileges for Cuban doctors arriving in the Central American country, to the detriment of local doctors.
Samuel Santos, from CMH, told the HRN radio station that there is no equity regarding salaries, since while a Honduran specialist earns 35,000 lempiras, a Cuban will receive 2,000 dollars (about 49,520 lempiras).
Nonetheless, Cuban professionals barely receive half of the money that the Honduran government pays for each of them.
However, despite the criticisms, the government of that country welcomed in February a brigade of 120 specialist doctors from Cuba, who will work there for two years, reported the French agency AFP.
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