With the arrival on Monday of 204 Cuban doctors from Brazil, about 1,500 medical collaborators have returned home in recent days after participating in the More Doctors Program, an initiative that was affected by President-elect Jair Bolsonaro”s hostility.
With the withdrawal of Cuban professionals from the More Doctors program, 30 million Brazilians will be left without primary medical assistance, former Health Minister Arthur Chioro warned on Monday.
You are more than doctors because you have returned to your homeland with such a revolutionary experience that has magnified you, said Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, when he received this morning the first group of Cuban doctors from Brazil after the decision of the Ministry of Public Health to […]
The success of Cuban medicine anywhere in the world is that it not only cures diseases, but also safeguards the health of individuals, families, communities and the environment, as requested by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, said Dr. Jorge Gonzalez Perez, national director of Teaching at the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap).
Happy to have fully accomplished their internationalist mission in Brazil, but also concerned about the fate that awaits that people with the newly elected president, the first 196 Cuban aid workers arrived in Cuba after learning of the decision of the Island to end its medical collaboration there.