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Exporting Doctors

Kenya ends arrangement to swap doctors with Cuba. The deal was unpopular with Kenyan doctors | AP News
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BY EMMANUEL IGUNZA

Updated 6:55 AM PDT, October 11, 2023

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s government announced Wednesday it would not be renewing a 6-year-old deal that saw Cuban doctors employed in Kenya while those from the East African country travelled to Cuba for specialized training.

The program was unpopular with Kenya’s main doctors union, partly because the Cuban doctors received more than double the average salary of their Kenyan counterparts. Critics argued that money would be better spent on Kenya’s medical infrastructure and on its own doctors.

Health Minister Nakumicha Wafula announced the end of the Cuba deal at a meeting with health industry workers in the capital, Nairobi, and was met with applause and shouts of “yes, yes!” Wafula said the ministry would ensure that the country’s health workers are “well taken care of.”
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Kenya’s government decided to terminate the employment of Cuban doctors and send back those in Kenya back to Cuba. The Cuban slave doctors were being paid more than twice as much as Kenyan doctors, the main reason for terminating the agreement. About 80% that salary was being paid directly to Castro’s regime. Al Shabab rebels kidnapped two Cuban slave doctors in Kenya four years ago, and still no information to what happened to them.
 
Castro dictatorship pocketed 94% of salaries paid for Cuban doctors sold as slave labor to Mexico | Babalú Blog (babalublog.com)
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January 11, 2024 by Alberto de la Cruz
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Modern-day slavery is alive and well, and Cuba’s communist Castro dictatorship is making a fortune off this heinous practice. An investigation by a Mexican watchdog organization found that the Cuban government pocketed 94.4% of the so-called salaries paid by the Mexican government for Cuban doctors sent to that country on “medical missions” during the COVID-19 pandemic. In practice, these missions are nothing more than modern-day slavery, where Cubans are sold as slave labor with the Castro regime keeping almost all the cash the doctors are supposed to be paid.

Via Diario de Cuba (my translation):

The Cuban government pocketed 94.4% of the salaries for doctors sent to Mexico during the pandemic

The National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information, and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) of Mexico has accused the Cuban government of pocketing 94.4% of the salary paid to Cuban doctors sent to Mexico during the pandemic, according to reports in the digital edition of the local radio station Radio Fórmula.
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The Cuban doctors that the regime sent to Mexico were working in conditions of slavery, with 94% of their salaries pocketed by Castro’s communist regime. Most of them did not volunteer to go. Their hiring by the Mexican government is illegal, since it is equivalent to modern slavery and human trafficking.
 
Cuban dictatorship exporting more doctors to Italy as slave labor | Babalú Blog (babalublog.com)
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January 24, 2024, by Alberto de la Cruz
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Italy is willfully purchasing more medical slave labor from the communist Castro dictatorship as the socialist healthcare system in Cuba is in virtual collapse. Rampant shortages of medicine, medical supplies, and the shipping of doctors overseas to work as slaves for the Cuban regime is stretching the island’s failing healthcare system beyond its limits. But the Castro dictatorship needs hard currency to stay in power, so let the Cuban people be damned.

Via Diario de Cuba (my translation):

More healthcare professionals sent outside Cuba: Nearly 160 go to Sardinia. A new group of nearly 160 Cuban healthcare professionals will soon be sent to Italy to work in hospitals on the island of Sardinia, where there is a shortage of specialized personnel, as reported by the digital edition of L’Unione Sarda.
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The hiring of Cuban doctors by Italy to send to Sardinia, is virtually to essentially endorsing forms of slavery. These doctors are subjected to a restrictive treatment of personal freedom. They cannot have relations outside working hours with other people.
 
Castro’s communist regime keeps systematically violating the labour and human rights of its Cuban doctors assigned to work abroad on medical missions, which makes it equivalent to modern slavery according to the UN. The medical missions, have become the regime main source of foreign income.
 
SA “integration programme” for Cuban-trained military doctors questioned | defenceWeb
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Kim Helfrich - 12th February 2024
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SAMHS medical personnel back in South Africa post Cuban training
Thirteen SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) personnel are back in South Africa following six years of “military medicine” training in Cuba and find themselves in an 18 month “integration programme” before qualifying as medical officers/general practitioners.

Once integration is complete, the 13 will, according to SAMHS SSO Corporate Communication Colonel RP Makopo, do internship and community service – as mandated by the Health Professions Council (HPC) – at the three military hospitals in South Africa.

One who does not see the need for the “extra” 18 months is African Defence Review (ADR) Director Darren Olivier. He asks what value will be gained for the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) from the 18 month integration at the University of Pretoria’s School of Medicine in view of the knowledge acquired in Cuba before the 13 are “able to do any work in South Africa”.

He poses the question because “SAMHS internal training programmes are far quicker for most disciplines and are already fully compliant with South African healthcare qualifications”.
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South African students who spend six years in Cuba medical schools are considered so ill-prepared to handle patients that they are being required to undergo an additional year and a half of training “before qualifying as medical officers/general practitioners.” They had pay the Castro’s regime lots of money to train their doctor and this is result. This could put an end to the program to send student to be train in Cuba medical schools.
 
Arrival of 96 Cuban slave doctors angers 11,000 unemployed Honduran doctors | Babalú Blog (babalublog.com)
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March 3, 2024 by Carlos Eire

From our Bureau of Twenty-First Century Neoslavery with some assistance from our Bureau of Leftist Latrine American Insanity

Xiomara Castro, Hondura’s leftist president, struck a deal with Castro, Inc. that has brought nearly 100 Cuban slave doctors to her country, despite the fact that her country has a surplus of doctors, 11,000 of whom are currently unemployed. As one might expect those unemployed doctors are very angry. On top of this, Xiomara’s government is paying Castro, Inc. more for each of the slave doctors than Honduran doctors can ever earn. (Never mind the fact that the slaves only get about 10% of what is paid to Castro, Inc.)

Then there are questions about the poor level of training received in Cuba by these doctors. And worries about the spies and agitators who are part of the medical brigade. Welcome to Latrine America, madhouse of the Western hemisphere.
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The Castroist regime continues to export its doctors while the health crisis on the island is sharpened. According to official data, in 2022 it had 12,065 less doctors than in 2021. Of the $2,000 salary that the regime is payed per doctor, the Cubans doctors received only 10% of the salary.
 
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