At least 500 Cuban health workers are helping tackle the new coronavirus in Mexico City, Mexican officials say, making it likely the largest contingent the communist-led island has deployed globally as part of its response to the pandemic.
FILE PHOTO: Cuban doctors take part in a farewell ceremony before departing to Italy to assist, amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Havana, Cuba, March 21, 2020. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
A federal health ministry source said there were now 600 Cuban health workers on the ground. Both sources asked not to be identified. The U.S. State Department recently called the medical aid program “abusive,” arguing that the doctors Cuba sends abroad are not adequately paid. Havana says everyone in the program chooses to take part and is paid.
“We have had a long-term health collaboration agreement with Cuba. Now for the attention of the pandemic, several Cuban doctors and nurses are in different hospitals,” Mexico City Mayor Sheinbaum, an ally of leftist president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said last week.
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