Cuban doctors gave their best to Brazilian patients – Escambray

The Cuban health professionals who participated in the Más Médicos de Brasil program stated as soon as they arrived on the island that they were delivering the best of themselves to their patients in difficult conditions.

We arrived with a very complex situation, in a medical office in Sao Paulo, without doctors, with nurses only, but with our commitment and preparation, we knew to go ahead, said Dr. Walter Jorge González , who cooperated for a year on Brazilian soil and entrusted Prensa Latina. Eight months.

According to Holguin's doctor, the work of Cuban collaborators of More Doctors deserved the recognition of the patients, from childbirth to humanism, which daily marked their actions in the most remote and poor communities.

Gonzalez, one of the 204 professionals who arrived in Cuba on Monday, rejected critics and disrespectful statements by Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who forced the Cuban Ministry of Public Health to take the decision not to Carry on. program participant activated in 2013.

We support the decision announced on November 14, because Bolsonaro's remarks against Cuban medicine are unacceptable, although we regret very much what will happen to the Brazilian people, who already regret our return, he said.

The collaborator pointed out that health professionals are returning to their home country with their heads up and the task they have accomplished.

For her part, Guantanamera Maria Isabel Durán said that in Brazil, there were very sad patients for the situation created, but at the same time grateful for the delivery and the attentions received.

We are happy to be back home, we support the decision to no longer continue to participate in More Doctors and we confirm that we will always give the best of ourselves in all the missions, added the l & # 39; teacher, who did a year and a half of work in Sao Paulo.

Monday's flight was the seventh flight to the island since last Friday with aid workers from the largest in the West Indies, who returned as a result of threats and living conditions in Bolsonaro.

The elected president has threatened to force Cuban doctors, once in power, to revalidate the title and the awarding of individual contracts as the only way, ignoring agreements with the Pan American Health Organization and the needs of the country. badistance of the most disadvantaged Brazilians. .

According to the chapter of the International Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements Serving the Defense of Humanity, about 44 million people will have no more health care from 2019 , in more than two thousand municipalities of the South American giant.

During the five years of the program created in 2013 by then President Dilma Rousseff, nearly 20,000 Cuban doctors participated in this initiative, which enabled them to serve 113 million people.