Mexico City.- The Health Institute for Wellness (INSABI), confronted the journalist and businessman Pedro Ferriz Hijarafter last Friday, June 10, he affirmed through social networks that the Coordinator of Strategic Analysis and Evaluation of Insabi, Joaquín Molina Leza, was the one who promoted the hiring of Cuban doctors in Mexico, a character who faces a process in the United States for the hiring of doctors from the island country in Brazil.
Regarding this issue, Insabi specified that since 2021, given the increase in cases of Covid-19 in the country, Cuban doctors have come to the country to treat patients who needed hospitalization.
They assured that, thanks to this support, the Tháhuac General Hospital in Mexico City could be started up, at a time when medical personnel were needed.
Insabi clarified that those who established this cooperation agreement were established by the Government of Mexico through the Ministry of Health and the government of Cuba. Therefore, Dr. Molina Leza had nothing to do with the hiring of health professionals.
Regarding this issue of support, they recalled that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been very clear that “Mexico has a chronic need for doctors and specialists, especially to provide coverage to remote and marginalized areas of the country. Mexican doctors, for various reasons, they are not interested in going to those areas.
For this reason, the Government of Mexico launched the National Recruitment and Hiring Day for Medical Specialists, held from May 24 to June 3, with the aim of filling 14,323 vacancies throughout the national territory.
From the analysis of the demand for specialist medical personnel in the public health sector, it was found that the five specialties that are most needed in the country occupy 57 percent of the total vacancies, which are: Internal Medicine, 1,753 vacancies; Urgenciology, 1,728; Gynecology and Obstetrics, 1,572; Pediatrics, 1,517; and Anesthesiology, 1,367.
From the analysis of the demand for specialist medical personnel in the public health sector, it was found that the five specialties that are most needed in the country occupy 57 percent of the total vacancies, which are: Internal Medicine, 1,753 vacancies; Urgenciology, 1,728; Gynecology and Obstetrics, 1,572; Pediatrics, 1,517; and Anesthesiology, 1,367.
The JNational Recruitment and Hiring of Specialist Physicians It is an unprecedented exercise in Mexico. Never before had a health sector job bank been concentrated so that medical specialists could express their interest in working in public institutions.
In this call, a record of 10 thousand 920 doctors was obtained, who applied for 6 thousand 963 places, of the 14 thousand 323 available.
The 7,360 vacancies without applications are located mainly in the marginalized areas of Chiapas, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Puebla and Veracruz. This confirms what was said by the Secretary of Health in the Pulse of Health: specialist doctors do not accept going to marginalized areas of the country. The numbers prove it.
It should be noted that the medical missions created by the Cuban government began in 1963 to provide services in Algeria and, since that date, thousands of Cuban doctors have provided their services in countries that officially request it because they do not have enough medical personnel. Cuban medical brigades have served in 164 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Portugal.
Dr. Joaquín Molina Leza is Cuban by birth and naturalized Mexican. He has been married to a Mexican woman for more than 30 years and has 2 Mexican-born children who are now adults.
He was an international official of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) for three decades and in 2018 he retired. Later he was hired by Insabi due to his extensive experience in countries such as Mexico, Panama, Brazil and Nicaragua, for which he fully meets the profile of the position he occupies in this institution.
Finally, it is reiterated, as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador himself has said, that the Cuban doctors have not yet arrived in the country and that as soon as the number of doctors and the areas in which they will be are defined, the people of Mexico, as he does daily in his morning conference.
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Mexico needs doctors and specialist doctors, not only in urban areas, but also in rural and marginalized areas, which is where the poorest people are.
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