Exporting Doctors

Sandokan · Feb 1, 2018

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Under the Castroit tyrannical regime ‘free choice', is a phrase which has no meaning. Doctors who refuse to become a money making export for the regime, are punishing by lowering their professional status, canceling their internet and email accounts, denied advancement in their careers and punished in other ways. Those who agree to work abroad for less than 25% of the salary negotiated by the regime, which keeps the rest, are reminded of the grave consequences their family members in the island will suffer if they defect.

Sandokan · Feb 17, 2018

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The argument that the doctors are provided their education for free by the regime, does not hold water. They in effect are paying for their ‘free’ education by the low wages paid to them by the regime for their entire life, a very high price. The argument that the Cuban doctors have no valid complaints to walk away from their contract, a new form of slave labor, is an injustice that cannot be allow to stand.

Sandokan · Mar 4, 2018

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Those doctors who had filed suits to challenge the deal, denounced by a Brazilian judge as a “form of slave labor”, were fire right away by their Cubans supervisor in Brazil and given the option of leave immediately for Cuba or have to wait 8 years to be allow to return to it. Those with families in Cuba, hold as hostages by the regime, face the situation of not seeing their family for 8 years if they did not comply with the demand.

Sandokan · Mar 19, 2018

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Government Invites Doctors Who Fled To Return To Cuba
https://translatingcuba.com/government-invites-doctors-who-fled-to-return-to-cuba-14ymedio/

14ymedio
February 6, 2017

A group of Cuban doctors stranded in Colombia protests about the delay in US visas. (Archive)

14ymedio, Miami, 3 February 2017 — The Ministry of Public Health released a statement Thursday in the official newspaper Granma to reiterate the willingness of Cuban authorities to take back health professionals who have “defected” from medical missions abroad.

The announcement comes three weeks after the outgoing U.S. president, Barack Obama, eliminated the Cuban Medical Professional Parole (CMPP) program. This initiative, established during the Bush administration in 2006, facilitated the arrival in the United States of more than 8,000 Cuban doctors who were in other countries.

In 2014 the Cuban government, for the first time, offered health professionals who had defected, or tried to, a chance to rejoin the national system
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The Public Health Ministry (MINSAP) has the nerve to announce that it would allow doctor who have defected to come back. Nobody is going to believe in their siren songs. The priority of the regime is to maintain power and control. Doctors are treated as commodities. They don’t see their years of study and dedication reflected in their wages.

Sandokan · Apr 6, 2018

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The Castroit regime on December 1, 2015 started once again restrict foreign trips abroad by specialist doctor (cardiologists, surgeons, renal specialists, pediatricians, gynecologists and others). Doctors with those skills doesn’t want to resign themselves to poor pay and professional stagnation. Medical students are not provided with a document with the existing clause stating that they must comply with the immigration laws after graduating. Centralize management and migratory regulation is not a solution. The solution is a democratic system that give the people the right to make their own choices with few restrictions.

Sandokan · Apr 23, 2018

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Cuba Stops Sending Doctors To Brazil For Fear Of Defections
Cuba Stops Sending Doctors To Brazil For Fear Of Defections – Translating Cuba

14ymedio, Mario Penton Martinez
April 15, 2017

4ymedio, Mario Penton, Miami, 14 April 2017 – Cuba just suspended the sending of a group of 710 health professionals who would have worked on the “More Doctors” mission in Brazil, our of fear of desertions, according to a report from the Brazilian press informed by that country’s Ministry of Health.

The decision not to send the doctors is an act of pressure from Havana in the face of the role played by the Brazilian government of Michel Temer, which has allows more than 80 Cuban health professionals to stay in the country after the end of their mission.

For the Health Ministry of the island, such action “is not in conformity” with the agreement signed between the two nations under the government of Dilma Rousseff. As a part of that agreement, more than 11,000 Cuban doctors remain in Brazil.
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Obviously a number of Cuban doctors in Brazil have decided that they do not want to be treated as slaves. The Brazilian government has allow a number of Cuban doctors to remain in the country after the end of their mission. The Castroit regime decided not to send more doctors to Brazil for fear of desertions and worry its spread to other countries where Cuban doctors work for slave wages. After all the “export of medical services” is the larger source of revenue of the Castroit regime.

Sandokan · May 10, 2018

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‘Around 150’ Cuban Slave Doctors Have Filed Suits in Brazil Seeking Freedom
'Around 150' Cuban Slave Doctors Have Filed Suits in Brazil Seeking Freedom | Breitbart

by Frances Martel 2 Oct 2017

Brazil’s Health Minister told reporters last week that his nation’s judiciary has seen “around 150” lawsuits by Cuban doctors forced to work for negligible salaries in Brazil, the pawns in an elaborate for-profit enterprise that nets the communist Castro regime millions of dollars a year.

The issue caught the attention of the New York Times, a publication that has attacked the United States for offering refuge to Cuban doctors who manage to escape the system and reach America, dismissing the doctors’ complaints as unsubstantiated.

Brazilian Health Minister Ricardo Barros spoke in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday according to the national newspaper O Globo, and said Cuba has expressed concern that the program that brings these doctors into Brazil may soon result in a flood of litigation. “Mais Medicos” (“More Doctors”), a program established by ousted leftist president Dilma Rousseff, aims to fill gaps in the Brazilian health care system by forcing Cuban doctors into the nation’s most remote and impoverished areas.
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These doctors who are contracted are not 'free' to do so in the legal sense of the word; these contracts are indeed ones of serfdom. 'Free choice' is a phrase which is not respected by the Castroit regime. Doctors who do not choose to be treated like property and become a money making export for the regime are denied advancement in their careers or are punished in other ways. Those that do go abroad are reminded frequently that their spouse or families will suffer should they defect.

SDET · May 10, 2018

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Sandokan said:
Treatments we take for granted aren't available at all, except to the Communist elite or foreigners with dollars. For them, the Castroit regime keeps hospitals equipped with the best medicines and technologies available.

What is it that leads people to value theoretically "free" health care, even when it's lousy or nonexistent, over a free society that actually delivers health care?

It's called propaganda with a grain of truth. When I asked this Cuban what her braces cost on her teeth, she replied about $65 for everything. She was totally shocked that my kids braces were about $3,000 or almost 50 times as much. Keep in mind that $3,000 is more than ten years wages on the island.

Sandokan · Jun 1, 2018

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Doctors who 'agree' to leave family and loved ones to work abroad in return for receiving less than 25% of the wages earned (the rest go to the Castroit regime) are not doing so freely, they are doing it because they are coerced to or hopping to escape from the island. According to the article doctors who choose to exercise their judicial rights are threatened with exile for eight years.

SDET · Jun 2, 2018

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Sandokan said:
Doctors who 'agree' to leave family and loved ones to work abroad in return for receiving less than 25% of the wages earned (the rest go to the Castroit regime) are not doing so freely, they are doing it because they are coerced to or hopping to escape from the island. According to the article doctors who choose to exercise their judicial rights are threatened with exile for eight years.

Why would anyone want to return to the economic privation of Cuba before eight years? Scorpions sting because it's their nature. Complaining about reality doesn't change it. Scorpions sting; Communists repress. That's just the way it is.

Sandokan · Jun 29, 2018

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Cuba med students must do two more years in SA
HeraldLIVE

November 5, 2017, Estelle Ellis

Eastern Cape medical students returning from Cuba will in future have to complete another two years of training at one of the medical schools in the province.

This is according to Eastern Cape Department of Health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo.

He said there were 390 medical students in Cuba and a new arrangement would be implemented for them to complete another two years of studies in South Africa.

“They will then have to write a final exam to qualify as medical doctors,” he said.
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According to the Castroit regime when the doctors trained in Cuba’s universities will return home to treat patients “equipped with some of the best medical training in the world.”

SA Health Department has fine out the hard way that they has to retrained the medical doctors trained in the “medical power” universities in Cuba for two more years and take an exam after their retraining to obtain their doctor license, due to the deficiency of their training under the Castroit regime.

Sandokan · Jul 15, 2018

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According to a report by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, “more than 75% of “doctors” with Cuban “medical degrees” flunk the exam given by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates for licensing in the U.S.” No wonder SA has to retrain them.

Sandokan · Jul 31, 2018

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The Business of Solidarity
The Business of Solidarity | Diario de Cuba

DDC | Madrid | 13 de Noviembre de 2017

50,000 employees in more than 60 countries, and revenue of around 11 billion dollars a year. These are not the figures of a multinational, but of the services exported by the Cuban State.

In the image and likeness of a capitalist empire, in recent decades the Government of the island has adopted a policy of global implantation in the niche markets where it has expertise and a large workforce.

This strategy is often overlooked when people talk about Cuba's doctors sent abroad. It is primarily an economic maneuver, for profit, and not (as is usually claimed by official propaganda) a gesture of solidarity.

Although during the decades of "proletarian internationalism" the socialist regime did cover the costs of education and health programs in Third World countries, since the disappearance of the USSR (and its huge subsidies) the experience and reputation acquired by Cuban professionals in these areas have become fundamental assets to open up new markets.
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The Castroit regime is praise for its “humanitarian” healthcare missions sent to other countries. But in reality the regime, according to the article, will collect $11 billion in 2017 from the pay of its health workers, making it the largest source of hard currency for the regime.

Since 2003, when Venezuela agreed to provide 53,000 barrels of oil per day in exchange for a number of medical services, the regime has cut the number of doctors operating on the island and sold their services abroad.

Sandokan · Aug 13, 2018

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Since 2003 service exports have been the primary source of foreign currency of the regime. Cuban health professionals generate billions in tax revenue by working for the regime while overseas.

See table below from Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas de Cuba (ONE).

TABLE 1. Cuba’s service exports in millions of dollars
Year-----------------------Service exports
-------------------------(Excluding tourism)

2003---------------------------845.4
2004-------------------------1,520.8
2005-------------------------4,151.6
2006-------------------------4,432.5
2007-------------------------5,715.4
2008-------------------------6,219.5
2009-------------------------5,680.2
2010-------------------------7,441.6
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source Anuario Estadístico de Cuba (Statistical Yearbook) for 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas (ONE), República de Cuba.

Sandokan · Sep 4, 2018

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A Lawyer Sees Salvation in Brazil’s New Immigration Law for "Deserter" Doctors
A Lawyer Sees Salvation in Brazilâ€™s New Immigration Law for "Deserter" Doctors – Translating Cuba

14ymedio, Mario Penton Martinez, Translator: Regina Anavy

Some Cuban doctors complain that with all the money they’ve given to the Government, they could afford to pay for their medical education several times over.

14ymedio, Mario Penton, Miami, November 24, 2017 – The new immigration law which takes effect this Wednesday in Brazil could benefit hundreds of doctors who have escaped from the Mais Medicos (More Doctors) mission in this country.

According to André De Santana Correa, a lawyer who represents 80 doctors from the Island who abandoned their mission, “the new law allows several types of protection for a Cuban doctor who is considered a deserter, on humanitarian grounds.”

De Santana told 14ymedio that he counsels all Cuban doctors who have an expired temporary visa for Brazil that they request “permission for residence with a temporary visa on humanitarian grounds.” The authorities can take into account that these professionals are prohibited from returning to Cuba for eight years, because they are considered deserters there.
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From 2006 to 2016, more than 8,000 Cuban doctors benefited from the “Cuban Medical Professional Parole” program that allows them to settle in the United States. The program was eliminated in January 2017 by the Obama administration.

The new Brazilian immigration law of November 2017, could benefit Cubans doctors who have abandoned the More Doctors mission and have an expired temporary visa. These doctors are considered deserters and are not allow to return to Cuba for 8 years. They can request “permission for residence with a temporary visa on humanitarian grounds”, since the Brazilian government wouldn’t allow them to work as doctors due to pressure from the Castroit regime. Hopefully this new migration law would allow them to work in their profession again.

Sandokan · Oct 4, 2018

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Medical Arrogance
Medical Arrogance | Diario de Cuba

ROBERTO ÁLVAREZ QUIÑONES | Los Ángeles | 1 de Febrero de 2018

Since 2010 64 hospitals have been closed, the country has lost a third of its hospitalization capacity, patients give gifts to doctors and dentists to receive treatment, many surgeries are not performed due to a lack of surgeons, or that necessary to operate; doctors are abandoning their profession to sell crafts, or become drivers; epidemics of all kinds are on the rise, and the lack of medication aggravates or leads to the death of patients...

This is not the start of a story about a country in sub-Saharan Africa, but rather a "medical powerhouse," as Castroism portrayed Cuba to the world, an achievement purportedly resulting from its Marxist-Leninist revolution.

In his 52 years as Cuba's pharaoh, Fidel Castro shouted to the four winds the fallacy that, thanks to the superiority of the socialist socioeconomic model, Cuba had become a juggernaut in contemporary medicine, not only providing Cubans with free service, but also poor countries in the Third World. And he compounded his lying by insisting upon another falsehood: before 1959 medical services on the Island were a disaster.

This myth was so masterfully broadcast throughout the world that even today, 27 years after the system's collapse, UN specialized agencies and millions of people everywhere continue to believe it.
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United Nation statistics show that Cuba’s health, education and standard of living levels grew under a democratic-capitalist system during the period 1902–58.

In 1957 Cuba ranked in 13th place worldwide in infant mortality rate; 32nd in life expectancy at birth; 25th in maternal mortality ratio; 26th in physician density per population; 16th in dentists; 14th in midwives; 26 in pharmacists. In the Americas ranked 6th in nurses, and 3rd in hospital beds.

In 2007, under the Castroit regime, Cuba ranked in 34th place worldwide in infant mortality rate; 43rd in live expectancy at birth; 68th in maternal mortality ratio; 1st in physician density per population (based in total number of doctors, not the actual numbers of doctors in Cuba serving the population). The regime hasn’t provided data in the number of dentists; midwives and pharmacists.

Reference link: http://www.ascecuba.org/c/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/v22-stusser.pdf

Sandokan · Oct 21, 2018

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There are a total of 70,000 Cuban doctors. According to MINSAP 30,000 Cuban doctor’s work overseas and another 13,000 have left Cuba. The actual numbers of doctors in Cuba are around 27,000. Of those 10% quit their profession to work in more lucrative jobs, leaving only 24,300 working in their profession. The regime has acknowledged that there is a shortage of doctors and nurses in Cuba. On December 2007 the vice minister of public health, Joaquín García Salaberría, took the highly unusual step of admitting on Cuban television that there were shortages of doctors and nurses. The real per capita of doctors in Cuba is one doctor per 469 people. This would rank Cuba in 57th place in physician density per population.

Cuba's infant mortality rate is kept low by the regime’s tampering with statistics, by a low birth rate of 12.5 births per 1000 population, and by a staggering abortion rate of 77.7 abortions per 1,000 women (0.78 abortions per each live birth. Data based on official statistics from the Cuban government). Cuba had the lowest birth rate and doubles the abortion rate in Latin America. Cuba's abortion rate was the 3rd highest out of the 60 countries studied. (The Incidence of Abortion Worldwide | Guttmacher Institute)

Sandokan · Nov 9, 2018

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Another health parameter linked to infant mortality, is the maternal mortality rate. Cuba’s maternal mortality rate is 33 deaths per 1,000 live births. This health statistic is high despite the fact that Cuba has the lowest birth rate in Latin America. The doctors are supposed to suggest abortion in risky pregnancies and, in some occasions, must perform the interruption without the consent of the couple. Cuban pediatricians constantly falsify figures for the regime. If an infant dies during his first year, the doctors often report he/she was older (infant mortality rate is define by the number of deaths during the first year of life per thousand live births). Otherwise, such lapses could cost him severe penalties and his job.

Sandokan · Dec 4, 2018

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In all nations with high emigration rates longevity rates skew high. This occurs because the birth is recorded but the death gets recorded in the nation migrated to. So it seems like fewer people die. A nation with high longevity but with high emigration has little to boast about with regards to longevity figures. During the last 57 years, 2.7 million Cubans have emigrated/born abroad. The actual island population is 11.2 million. The 2.7 million represent 19.5% of the total population, a high emigration rate. This is one of the reasons of the high life expectancy.

Sandokan · Dec 19, 2018

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In 1958 Cuba had 370 medical centers in service (Mesa Lago and Hernandez, 1964, p. 160) among 72 public hospitals, 28 polyclinics, 140 mutual aid clinics and cooperatives, and 130 private medical institutions that provided an additional 15,000 beds for a total of 36,140 beds for a population of 6.63 million, equivalent to one bed per 183 per inhabitant. In the 72 public hospitals assistance was free. Private healthcare facilities covered 40% of the population. There were 200 state operated “First Aid Clinics” (Casas de Socorro) in 52 of the 130 municipalities, and assistance was fee.

Sandokan · Jan 13, 2019

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Medical Arrogance
Medical Arrogance | Diario de Cuba

ROBERTO ÁLVAREZ QUIÑONES | Los Ángeles | 1 de Febrero de 2018

Since 2010 64 hospitals have been closed, the country has lost a third of its hospitalization capacity, patients give gifts to doctors and dentists to receive treatment, many surgeries are not performed due to a lack of surgeons, or that necessary to operate; doctors are abandoning their profession to sell crafts, or become drivers; epidemics of all kinds are on the rise, and the lack of medication aggravates or leads to the death of patients...

This is not the start of a story about a country in sub-Saharan Africa, but rather a "medical powerhouse," as Castroism portrayed Cuba to the world, an achievement purportedly resulting from its Marxist-Leninist revolution.

In his 52 years as Cuba's pharaoh, Fidel Castro shouted to the four winds the fallacy that, thanks to the superiority of the socialist socioeconomic model, Cuba had become a juggernaut in contemporary medicine, not only providing Cubans with free service, but also poor countries in the Third World. And he compounded his lying by insisting upon another falsehood: before 1959 medical services on the Island were a disaster.
Click link above for full article

United Nation statistics show that Cuba’s health, education and standard of living levels grew under a democratic-capitalist system during the period 1902–58.

In 1957 Cuba ranked in 13th place worldwide in infant mortality rate; 32nd in life expectancy at birth; 25th in maternal mortality ratio; 26th in physician density per population; 16th in dentists; 14th in midwives; 26 in pharmacists. In the Americas ranked 6th in nurses, and 3rd in hospital beds.

In 2007, under the Castroit regime, Cuba ranked in 34th place worldwide in infant mortality rate; 43rd in live expectancy at birth; 68th in maternal mortality ratio; 1st in physician density per population (based in total number of doctors, not the actual numbers of doctors in Cuba serving the population). The regime hasn’t provided data in the number of dentists; midwives and pharmacists.

Sandokan · Jan 27, 2019

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'It is unjust' - Cuban government demands payment for its doctors in Ghana
https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomeP...mands-payment-for-its-doctors-in-Ghana-651607

General News of Monday, 14 May 2018
Source: Myjoyonline.com

Marcia Cobas Ruiz, Deputy Minister of Health

The Cuban government has expressed worry about government’s failure to pay Cuban doctors serving in Ghana.

Deputy Minister of Health Marcia Cobas Ruiz while paying a courtesy call on the Northern Regional minister Solomon Boar said these doctors have not received their salaries since September last year.

There are more than a hundred Cuban doctors in Ghana providing health care in Upper East, Northern, Volta, Eastern, and Greater Accra regions with most of them in the northern part of the country.

"This is not just" she complained.

Madam Ruiz said so far, only those in Accra have received full payment with those in the northern region taking just part payment.

She said poorer countries in Africa like Chad pay the Cuban doctors regularly.

Madam Ruiz the Cuban doctors remain committed to discharging their duty despite the difficulties.

Details about the salary arrears are yet to be ascertained but Ghana as at March 2017 had an US $4,7m outstanding indebtedness to the Cuban medical brigade. The debt mainly accrued over the last 8 years.

The Cuban medical brigade in Ghana is part of the South American country's medical internationalism.

Since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, its government sends medical personnel overseas, particularly to Latin America and Africa and also brings medical students and patients to Cuba.

There are about 250 Ghanaian medical students studying in Cuba. Cuba provides more medical personnel to the developing world than all the G8 countries combined.

The outstanding indebtedness is over the last 8 month no years That is, from September 2017 to March 2018. The Castroit regime is praise by the mainstream media for its “doctor diplomacy” humanitarian mission worldwide. But in reality doctor diplomacy is no more than a trafficking in slave labor, which has become the regime greatest export, bringing more than 8 billion a year. Cuban doctors working abroad receive less than 25% of the wages earned and the rest go to the Castroit regime. A portion of their earnings are retained in Cuba and can be collected only if they return to the island.

Sandokan · Feb 12, 2019

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The article “Why The Unqualified Cuban Doctors Will Kill The Ghanaian People.” (Opinion | Why The Unqualified Cuban Doctors Will Kill The Ghanaian People), expressed great worry about the lack of expertise displayed by Cuban doctors. In Uganda, the expense involved in hiring 200 Cuban slave doctors caused such an uproar that the government had to reduce the number to 40. Go HERE (Uganda: Only 40 Cuban Doctors Ready for Uganda Jobs, Says Minister - allAfrica.com) for details on this kerfuffle.

Sandokan · Feb 27, 2019

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Cuban physicians still abandoning missions abroad despite end to U.S. parole program
Cuban physicians still defecting from missions abroad | Miami Herald

BY MARIO J. PENTÓN
mpenton@elnuevoherald.com
March 12, 2018

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA - Dayana Suárez, a Cuban dentist, arrived in Colombia a year ago with the hope of starting a new life here.

She defected from the Cuba medical team she was assigned to in neighboring Venezuela after the Obama administration halted a special program that welcomed medical professionals like her to the United States.

Unable to legalize her status in Colombia, she took to the jungle in an attempt to reach the U.S. border through Mexico and apply for political asylum. That was the same decision taken by many other Cuban doctors stranded in Bogotá after the unexpected to end the Cuban Medical Professional Parole (CMPP) program on Jan. 12, 2017.
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Despite the end of the parole program by the Obama administration that welcome medical professionals to the United States, Cuban doctors continuous to flee from other countries and keep going north to the U.S. border with no guarantees that they will be granted asylum. Hopefully a new parole program could be work out with the Trump administration.

Sandokan · Mar 17, 2019

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Why Uganda cannot afford Cuban doctors
Why Uganda cannot afford Cuban doctors

May 15, 2018 Written by JUSTUS LYATUU & JONATHAN KAMOGA

In November last year, doctors across the country laid down their tools for three weeks demanding that government fulfils a number of demands, including improved salaries, provision of housing and transport, domestic workers, stops the ‘war on doctors’ and disbands the State House Health Monitoring Unit.

Other issues revolved around impossible working conditions (shortage of medicines and medical supplies, disproportionate workload, lack of meals, etc). The government reacted angrily, claiming that the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) was holding the country at ransom.

Also last year, at a meeting held at State House in Entebbe, the doctors were not ready to take more empty promises from President Museveni. Regardless of a last-minute pledge by the president, they went ahead with their strike. One of the responses which has since emerged is a much-criticized plan to import doctors from Cuba.
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The Cubanization of Uganda’s health system would have the following effects:

1. Uganda’s doctors went on strike demanding the fulfilment of their demands. The Minister of Health proposed the hiring of doctors from Cuba to replace them.

2. Criticism of the plan to import doctors from Cuba. There is not lack of doctors, since Uganda’s doctors are leaving the country looking for better working conditions. So far 9% of doctors have migrated from Uganda.

3. The government pay about $ 5,000 per doctor/month, of which 70% goes directly to the Castroit regime. The government pay the Cuban doctors $1,500 (of which the regime keep half of it until they return to Cuba), excluding housing, transport and security allowances which adds to the expenses, while only pay the Uganda doctors $1,220.

4. The Uganda Medical Association (UMA) says “the comprehensive cost for importing Cuban doctors likely outweighs benefits.” Added that the language barrier is a problem too.

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