Italy Hires 158 Cuban Health Workers To Work in Medical Centers in Sardinia

14ymedio, Madrid, 24 January 2024 — After Calabria, another Italian region will receive a group of Cuban doctors soon. According to the Sardinian press, 128 doctors and 30 nurses will arrive in Sardinia very soon – without specifying a date – since the permits are about to be delivered. At the moment, the financial content … Continue reading “Italy Hires 158 Cuban Health Workers To Work in Medical Centers in Sardinia”

Cuba Monopolizes Mexican Medical Students on Scholarships to Study Abroad and Charges More Per Student Than the United Kingdom, France and the United States

14ymedio, Mexico, January 18, 2024 — Mexico pays Cuba 27,914 dollars in foreign currency (484,041 Mexican pesos) annually for each of the 428 students studying medical specialties on the Island. The figures reveal, according to a report published this Thursday in El Universal, that the education of these scholarship recipients on the Island is more … Continue reading “Cuba Monopolizes Mexican Medical Students on Scholarships to Study Abroad and Charges More Per Student Than the United Kingdom, France and the United States”

Cuba Hopes for Permission From the French Government To Send Its Doctors to Brittany

14ymedio, Madrid, 19 September 2023 — The Cuban government is discussing the possible landing of one of its international medical missions in France, in metropolitan territory, an idea that depends on a French government permit that seems very unlikely. Otto Vaillant, Cuba’s ambassador to the country, and his number two, Gisele Pérez Gómez, attended the … Continue reading “Cuba Hopes for Permission From the French Government To Send Its Doctors to Brittany”

The Cuban State Is Responsible for the Death of Oswaldo Paya, Concludes an OAS Commission

14ymedio, Madrid/Havana, 12 June 2023 — More than ten years after the death of the Cuban opponent Oswaldo Payá, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published on Monday the results of its investigation into the case: “There are serious and sufficient indications to come to the conclusion that state agents had an involvement in … Continue reading “The Cuban State Is Responsible for the Death of Oswaldo Paya, Concludes an OAS Commission”

The Human Rights Commission Forces Mexico to Re-Accept a Family of Cubans

14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico, 5 May 5, 2023 — The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) on Thursday ordered the National Institute of Migration (INM) to repair the damage caused to a family of four Cubans that it deported in November 2022 “despite having refugee status.” The measure includes “some compensation,” without specifying what it consists … Continue reading “The Human Rights Commission Forces Mexico to Re-Accept a Family of Cubans”

Cuban Medical Staff Abroad Falls From 30,000 to 23,000 in a Year

14ymedio, Madrid, 4 January 2022 — “Internationalism is a principle that has characterized Public Health in Cuba since the beginning of the first Cuban medical collaboration, in 1963, in Algeria,” the Cuban Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday on its Twitter account. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs left a significant fact about it yesterday, much celebrated this … Continue reading “Cuban Medical Staff Abroad Falls From 30,000 to 23,000 in a Year”

Cuba Charged Bolivia Millions of Dollars for 5,000 ‘Free’ Medical School Scholarships

14ymedio, Havana, 18 October 2022 — The 5,000 medical scholarships that Cuba touted in 2015 as a donation to Bolivia, cost Evo Morales’s government millions of dollars. The Island charged “registration for each student, annual tuition, room and board, transportation, health insurance and even for the students’ clothes,” a report from El Deber uncovered. Annex … Continue reading “Cuba Charged Bolivia Millions of Dollars for 5,000 ‘Free’ Medical School Scholarships”

Dozens of Cuban Medical Students Leave Their Careers to Emigrate

14ymedio, Natalia López Moya, Havana, 14 October 2022 — A few weeks ago she got married, in a white, short suit, with flowers and many photos. But the celebration for Kirenia, 22 years old, was in the simple formal procedure for her to reside in Madrid with her husband, a young Cuban who is also … Continue reading “Dozens of Cuban Medical Students Leave Their Careers to Emigrate”

Cuba is Trying to Capture More Resources by Relaunching Medical Tourism

14ymedio, Havana, 13 October 2022 — “A well-oiled infrastructure,” is how Prensa Latina describes the work of the Marketing of Cuban Medical Services (CSM), protagonist of the First Medical Tourism and Welfare Fair that will be held at the Pabexpo venue, from October 17 to 21, in Havana. The company is a health conglomerate that … Continue reading “Cuba is Trying to Capture More Resources by Relaunching Medical Tourism”

Mexico Paid Cuba 1.5 Million Dollars for its Medical Students to Study in Cuba

14ymedio, Havana, 27 February 2022 — Mexico gave 34,000,000 Mexican pesos (1,501,766 dollars) to Cuba, according to a report released by Latinus. The money was transferred in 2021 through the National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) to Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos, SA, “a company of the Government of Havana accused internationally of human trafficking and forced labor.” … Continue reading “Mexico Paid Cuba 1.5 Million Dollars for its Medical Students to Study in Cuba”

With its National Health System Collapsed, Cuba Continues to Export Medical Brigades

14ymedio, Havana, 26 August 2021 — Cuba’s national health system has collapsed throughout the country, but the Cuban government is committed to continuing to send doctors abroad. In the last hours, 23 health workers joined the brigades working in Haiti and Ghana. The Ministry of Public Health announced this Wednesday that “11 collaborators” from the island, members … Continue reading “With its National Health System Collapsed, Cuba Continues to Export Medical Brigades”

Henry Reeve Medical Contingent Sent to Azerbaijan a Year Ago Returns to Cuba

14ymedio, Havana, 9 July 2021 —  With the habitual pomp and publicity from the Cuban Government, the contingent of medical workers from the Henry Reeve Brigade that had been sent to Azerbaijan last year to help fight the Covid pandemic landed at the José Martí airport in Havana on Thursday. The official press mentioned that the … Continue reading “Henry Reeve Medical Contingent Sent to Azerbaijan a Year Ago Returns to Cuba”

Cuba’s Medical Brigade in Kuwait Performs With its Eyes on the Nobel Peace Prize

14ymedio, Madrid, 9 June 2021 — Every medical brigade that returns to Cuba is an opportunity for promotion with a view to the Nobel Peace Prize. This Tuesday the returning brigade was the last contingent that remained in Kuwait, where the Cuban government sent more than 300 healthcare workers in the last year to reinforce … Continue reading “Cuba’s Medical Brigade in Kuwait Performs With its Eyes on the Nobel Peace Prize”

Yomil Denounces "Medical Negligence" in El Dany’s Death and Calls for Justice

14ymedio, Havana, 19 July 2020 — The death of the popular reggaeton player Daniel Muñoz Borrego, El Dany, was due to “medical negligence,” according to his friend Roberto Hidalgo Puentes, Yomil, who demanded that “the guilty parties pay,” during a live broadcast this Sunday through Instagram. As detailed by his partner in the musical duo created in … Continue reading “Yomil Denounces "Medical Negligence" in El Dany’s Death and Calls for Justice”

The Andorran Press Mocks the Cuban Medical Brigade

14ymedio, Madrid, July 1, 2020 — The last members of the medical brigade in Andorra now fly back to Cuba without having made the least mention of the two members who abandoned the mission this past week. The head of the group, Luis Enrique Pérez Ulloa, said goodbye to the European principality with self-praise, affirming … Continue reading “The Andorran Press Mocks the Cuban Medical Brigade”