Zoé Robledo, director of the IMSS, met with the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel; They announce the hiring of 1,200 doctors on the island
The Mexican government will hire 1,200 additional Cuban doctors to the hundreds who are already in the country after a meeting between the director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, and the president, Miguel Díaz-Canel.
Although the meeting took place last Friday in Havana, the IMSS specified days later the number of Cuban specialists, who will join the 768 who already work in Mexico’s public health sector and 123 who will arrive in the coming days with a specialty in medicine. familiar.
The island’s health workers will join the IMSS-Bienestar, a system created by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to care for people without social security and which replaced Seguro Popular, with the same purpose.
At that meeting, the general director of Social Security indicated that through the agreement between the governments of Mexico and Cuba, it is intended to expand to 1,200 Cuban doctors who support the IMSS-Wellness medical units located in remote and difficult-to-access areas,” the institute detailed.
The hiring of Cuban doctors in Mexico has sparked criticism from the opposition, such as from presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez, who just last week promised that her government would not hire these workers.
Mangos (don’t even believe) that we are going to continue bringing Cuban doctors to Mexico! In Mexico, what is left over is capacity and talent, and the bringing of Cuban doctors has only served to simulate the financing of an authoritarian regime because they don’t even believe that they are paid well,” she explained during the presentation of her health plan last Monday.
But the government justifies the hiring because Mexico has 2.4 doctors per 1,000 inhabitants, higher than the average of 2 per thousand in Latin America, but lower than the average of 3.5 of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD), according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
Furthermore, the López Obrador Administration has defended Cubans after stating that Mexican doctors do not want to work in rural or marginalized areas, while health personnel have responded that there are areas in which they cannot work due to violence.
“The participation of Cuban doctors in IMSS-Bienestar has added to the work of Mexican doctors to strengthen the First Level of Care by increasing productivity in consultations and the operating room,” the institute’s statement concluded.
Source: lopezdoriga
