- Between July 2022 and 2023, three contracts were signed between both countries, the last for 1,636,308 euros per month
- From 2022 to December of last year, 48 doctors have fled
14ymedio, Mexico City, 22 September 2024 — The Government of Mexico paid Cuba 21,590,853 euros for 610 specialists as part of three agreements signed between July 2022 and 2023. From that group of doctors hired to provide health services in rural areas, 48 doctors fled, according to an investigation by the newspaper El Universal.
The Health Services organization of the Mexican Institute of Social Security for Welfare signed three agreements with Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos S.A. de C.V., an island company internationally accused of human trafficking. The Regime received 1,177,300 euros monthly between July 2022 and May 2023.
The Human Resources Division of the Finance and Infrastructure Coordination of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) stressed to the Mexican newspaper that they do not have detailed information about the Cuban health professionals. In addition, they claimed to be unaware of the salary they receive.
The regime received 1,177,300 euros monthly between July 2022 and May 2023
However, an official of the Institute of Health for Wellbeing (Insabi) – created by the Government of López Obrador to provide health care and free medicines – told 14ymedio in 2022 that for each of the medical specialists hired, the Mexican