Castro regime sends a brigade of 120 Cuban doctors to Honduras – 2024-03-03 05:02:07

The island’s government has decided to send a medical brigade consisting of 120 Cuban professionals to Honduras, despite criticism and opposition from the local doctors’ union in that country.

The Cuban doctors arrived in the territory last Tuesday, February 27, and will remain there to work for the next two years.

The plane that transported them arrived at the Palmerola airport, located about 50 kilometers from Tegucigalpa. The brigade was received by Carla Paredes, Minister of Health of Honduras and Foreign Minister Enrique Reina.

According to the French news agency AFPthe brigade is made up of four coordinators and 96 specialists in immunology, surgeons, anesthetists, cardiologists and orthopedists, among other professionals.

The group will be tasked with helping reduce delays in care in the country’s public hospitals. It is important to note that the Honduran authorities did not mention another 20 professionals, who, according to the official Cuban press, would complete the 120 doctors in the brigade.

Cuban media shared propaganda reports from Honduras, which praised the arrival of the doctors, something that, according to their speech, reinforced the “revolutionary commitment” and “the solidarity that characterizes the Cuban people,” this without mentioning the thousands of dollars that the regime charges for each professional.

Juan Roberto Loforte, Cuban ambassador to Honduras, indicated that this was “necessary” help, since it had to make up for the lack of specialists in the Honduran health system, something that is ironic when taking into account the hundreds of complaints made by the citizens on the Island, who affirm that it is the health system of the self-proclaimed medical power that is in decline.

“They have made a great effort to satisfy the basic needs of the Honduran health system,” the official added about this brigade.

The arrival of the Cuban doctors occurs in the midst of a period of criticism from the Honduran Medical College (CMH), which questions the need to import doctors from abroad when there are several waiting for employment in the country.

At the beginning of February, the CMH denounced the salary privileges that Cuban doctors receive upon arriving in Honduras, something that local doctors cannot enjoy. The most ironic thing about the matter is that Antillean professionals cannot enjoy these benefits either, since the regime keeps up to 90% of the money paid to the Island.

Additionally, it has been known that the small fraction that corresponds to them remains out of reach until they return to the Island, this in an attempt to prevent them from staying abroad.