On a recent visit to Cuba, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that 500 Cuban doctors will be given permission to work in Mexico in order to make up the shortage in medical professional staff this country is experiencing.
The announcement has been harshly criticized by the leaders of medical associations in Mexico, who in a joint statement noted that this country has many unemployed, fully trained doctors, and that hiring Cubans is tantamount to “slave labor,” as the greater part of their salaries is “pocketed by the Cuban government.”
The qualifications of these foreign doctors are not properly scrutinized, said the Mexican medical grouping, suggesting that many of them “do not know how to use modern equipment.”
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