Brazil Was In Dire Situation Before Cuban Doctors, Says PAHO Representative
Brazil Was In Dire Situation Before Cuban Doctors, Says PAHO Representative
Representative Joaquín Molina said he knew that the Cuba withdrawal was a possibility
Nov.28.2018 2:53PM
Natália Cancian
BRASÍLIA
For the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Brazil Joaquín Molina, the arrival of Cuban physicians in Brazil to work in the Mais Médicos program was an emergency solution to a moment where the country "was in a dire situation" with the lack of doctors in rural Brazil.
According to Molina, who works in Brazil since 2012 and followed the program since the beginning, "it was obvious that foreign doctors were needed."
"When Brazil created Mais Médicos, the country was in a dire situation, with thousands of positions available, but either vacant or partially filled."
Five years later, he says that the high number of foreign doctors in areas where no Brazilian physicians are not interested in going shows that the problem of scarcity and uneven distribution of healthcare professionals persists.
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https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2018/11/brazil-was-in-dire-situation-before-cuban-doctors-says-paho-representative.shtml
