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Venezuela will receive 2,000 Cuban doctors working in Brazil after the conflict between the communist island and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, according to statements by Nicolás Maduro in a speech on television.
"Next week we will be hosting a special event celebrating the arrival of 2,000 new family doctors that Cuba will send to us from Brazil," Maduro said.
The president had already announced that these doctors would visit his country during his speech to the Constituent Assembly last Monday (14).
"Brazilian fascism has closed the health project and the 2,000 doctors are going to Venezuela," he said.
The Venezuelan president gave no details on how the country will pay for its services.
In November, Havana decided to withdraw from the agreement of the Más Doctores program maintained by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and signed about five years ago with Brazil, response to criticism by Jair Bolsonaro since the campaign.
In August, still campaigning, Bolsonaro said he would "expel" Cuban doctors from Brazil. For him, the conditions to which Cuban doctors were subjected constituted "forced labor".
Bolsonaro conditions their permanence to the revalidation of diplomas and individual contracts with the Brazilian government, which allows them to collect the full salary (Cuba transfers 30% of what they perceive for their work to their doctors abroad). It also imposed the condition of the freedom of Cuban professionals to bring their families to Brazil.
In Venezuela, clinics run by Cuban doctors were a flagship program of the former Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Chávez, who had abundant oil resources during his 14 years at the helm of Venezuela and who was Ended in 2013 with cancer. Venezuela paid for medical services with oil shipments.
Maduro, faced with the collapse of Venezuela's once booming economy, has had to deal with complaints about the country's health care system and the abandonment of the economy. units managed by Cuban doctors.
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