What is needed is a better distribution of health professionals in the national territory and to strengthen the infrastructure, affirms Enrique Graue
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After the wave of criticism of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, both for the announcement about the hiring of 500 Cuban doctors and for his new questioning of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) for its role during the pandemic, Enrique Graue affirmed that without doubt it is necessary to better distribute doctors in the national territory.
At the end of the signing of two collaboration agreements with the Government of the State of Michoacán and with the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH), the rector of the UNAM, the rector of the UNAM indicated that there are enough doctors in the country , but maintained that it is necessary to strengthen the infrastructure for medical specialties.
The specialists, he added, are partially trained in university classrooms, since they are nourished by knowledge and skills in hospitals. This, she said, is an issue that has been pending for several decades.
“In principle, of course, specialists are needed and distribution undoubtedly has to be improved,” he said at the University Cultural Center of the UMSNH.
When expressly asked about the comments recently made by the President of the Republic about doctors, the rector asserted that he is a graduate and has every right to express his points of view.
Before the governor of the state of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, and the rector of the UMSNH, Raúl Cárdenas Navarro, Graue Wiechers stressed that the two universities have fulfilled their mission of training free, autonomous students, with reflective and transformative capacity, as well as well as promoting social mobility, which is a great value of higher education.
“Rest assured that we will work together for the state, as we have been doing,” Graue remarked.
Governor Ramírez Bedolla asserted that the agreements are already actions, practices between the UNAM and the UMSNH, both institutions of national pride.
Work is being done, he said, for greater promotion of scientific research, technical advice, training of human resources and to strengthen education, which is the best tool for development and peace. “It is only transformed through education and culture.”
Meanwhile, the rector of the UMSNH, Raúl Cárdenas Navarro, indicated that the agreements endorse the link between these two study houses; they are the channels through which universities meet the needs of the social environment and put their capacities at the service of society to meet these requirements.
The agreements signed strengthen teaching, research, the promotion of cultural activities and technical and technological assistance between the two houses of study. Also to facilitate the exchange of students and academics, as well as to develop shared postgraduate courses.
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