President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He said this Monday that his government will hire 500 Cuban doctors to strengthen the health system, after returning on the eve of a regional tour that ended on the Caribbean island.
During the covid-19 pandemicthe López Obrador administration, in power since December 2018, also hired a contingent of Cuban health professionals to treat patients in the Mexican capital for months, which sparked criticism from opposition sectors.
“We are also going to hire doctors from Cuba who are going to come to work in our country; we made this decision because we do not have the doctors we need in the country,” he said. AMLO in his usual morning conference.