With fervent praise for Fidel Castro for creating the Cuban health system, the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported the extension of the agreement with the Government of that country so that more island doctors come to Mexico to help him fulfill his promise of having specialists in all health centers.
In his meeting with the President Miguel Díaz-CanelIn the Seventh Military Region, López Obrador thanked the support for sending 610 Cuban doctors from 29 specialties, who since July have given more than 242,000 consultations in 12 states, and asked for more to arrive, despite local criticism.
“Here, where they don’t listen to us and don’t see us, well, once and for all I make it known: I hope they support us with more doctors, with more specialists, because we have a commitment that by July of this year we must have the entire staff in health centers and hospitals, and we can achieve it if we continue to count on your support,” he said.
The President justified the collaboration with Cuba for the Lack of specialists in Mexicoprovoked, according to what he said, by neoliberalism, at the same time that he exalted the “vision” of Fidel Castro.
“While the neoliberals were preventing the formation of doctors in Cuba they were driving the medical training, and the consolidation of one of the best health systems in the world. That does not make him just a statesman, that makes him a man of the nation, a visionary, a giant,” he said.
In the Mexico City, Workers from the Institute of Health for Well-being (Insabi) denounced that since January 1 they have not received their salary, for which they began work stoppages and called a demonstration in the National Palace next week.
Díaz-Canel, for his part, congratulated his compatriots, 48 of whom were present, as he assured that they make José Martí’s ideal that “Homeland is humanity” a reality.
The island’s Minister of Health, José Ángel Portal, reported that since last July Cuban doctors have treated 167,964 patients in Mexico, have performed 7,365 operations and attended 1,347 deliveries.
“Be sure of the Cuban medical brigades They will be there for as long as necessary and that together, Cuban and Mexican doctors, we will guarantee with quality that supreme good that is the right to health,” added Cuban doctor Manuel de Jesús Molina, who has been working in Campeche since September.
As the first extension of the agreement, the director of the IMSS, Zoé Robledo, reported that Mexico has already requested other 100 specialists in comprehensive general medicine. “We are sure that we will continue to grow, exploring new dimensions of our collaboration,” she stated.
He agreement, controversy over the payment made to the Cuban government and the claim of Mexican doctors demanding contracts and payments, was also celebrated by the Secretary of Health of Mexico, Jorge Alcocer, who explained that of the 242 thousand consultations that Cubans have given , 110 thousand 246 were from specialists,
For 2023 and 2024, he added, Cuba has been ordered 19 codes of anti-cancer drugs for more than 1,576 million pesos.
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