Another 33 Cuban doctors have arrived in Nayarit, Mexico

Another 33 Cuban doctors have arrived in Nayarit, Mexico

2022-08-26 21:30:32 / t.


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Mexico City. – Governor Miguel Angel Navarro announced today that 33 Cuban doctors have arrived in the Mexican state of Nayarit to join the first contingent of 60 doctors that arrived on July 23.

The president announced that the purpose of these contracts is to cover the Cubans’ need for specialized doctors in different regions of the country, including that state where the government’s new health plan for all was launched.

The governor of Nayarit declared that the purpose of these contracts was to cover the Cubans' need for medical professionals in different regions of Mexico.

He reported that these doctors – who arrived the day before – would cover specialties in four municipalities, and although no further details were given, he confirmed that they would be assigned to hospitals in Tepic, Bahia de Banderas, Compostela and Rosamorada.

Before that, they will also prepare them like the group that preceded them to know the protocols of the system of the Mexican Institute of Social Security and Welfare.

Navarro expressed that as part of strengthening second-level medical care in the new health model that we are applying in the region, the 33 Cuban doctors will join these hospitals in specialties such as outpatient surgery and dialysis.

But the specialties that this new brigade will attend more include neurology, dermatology, ophthalmology, nephrology, otolaryngology, pediatric oncology, neonatology, cardiology and trauma.

Regarding the 60 doctors already working in Nayarit, there are 20 from internal medicine, 19 from pediatrics, five from gynecology, 14 from general surgery and two from other specialties.

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