HAVANA, Jan. 29 Cuba has lost its first health worker due to COVID-19 amid the government’s efforts to contain the sharpest rise in infections since the pandemic began, Read more
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HAVANA, Dec 31 The international campaign to recognize Cuban doctors of the Henry Reeve brigade with the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Read more
HAVANA, Dec 24 (PL) Ten brigades of Cuban doctors arrived in Panama on Friday morning to collaborate with the care of those infected by Covid-19, at the most critical moment of the pandemic in the country. Read more
HAVANA, Dec 13 British Baroness Christine Blower formally nominated the Cuban medical brigade Henry Reeve for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, Read more
HAVANA, sept.14 (Reuters) At the start of Togo’s coronavirus outbreak, the small West African nation welcomed a team of 12 Cuban healthcare workers to tend to sufferers of the virus, Read more
HAVANA, Aug 29 (PL ) Cuba’s and Kenya’s Foreign Ministers, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla and Raychelle Awour Omamo respectively, Read more
HAVANA, June 8th (DPA) Cuban medics returning from a mission to treat coronavirus patients in Italy were welcomed home with a personal message from the country’s president and cheers from the public on Monday. Read more
HAVANA, June 7th Every morning from 8 am to 11 family doctor Liz Caballero winds through twisting alleys and ducks under washing lines in Havana’s Vedado district. Read more
HAVANA, June 6th Kuwait has recruited 300 Cuban doctors and nurses to be deployed to deal with COVID-19 infections, a senior official said. Read more
HAVANA, May 20th Brazil has rehired 157 Cuban doctors to help fight a surge in coronavirus cases, Read more
HAVANA, May 6th They have jetted into some of the most horrifying calamities in recent history, clutching the red, Read more
HAVANA, April 29th (AFP) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday criticized South Africa and Qatar Read more
HAVANA, April 21st “NOW we have a chance to show solidarity with Cuba and help the Cuban people Read more
HAVANA, April 13th (EFE) The two Cuban doctors kidnapped in Kenya by the Somali jihadist group Al-Shabaab Read more
HAVANA, March 31th (AFP) Thirty-nine Cuban doctors and nurses arrived on Monday in the tiny Pyrenean principality of Andorra to help it battle the coronavirus, Read more
HAVANA, March 22 (Reuters) Cuba said it dispatched a brigade of doctors and nurses to Italy for the first time this weekend Read more
HAVANA, Dec. 17th (AFP) Two Cuban doctors who were kidnapped in Kenya in April and taken to Somalia “are well,” Read more
HAVANA, Nov. 17th An official statement from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) announced that Cuban doctors and health personnel working in Bolivia…
HAVANA, Oct. 14th (EFE) Alive, in good health in Somalia, but without guarantees of when they will be released, today are the only clear premises in the case of the two Cuban doctors kidnapped six months ago in northern Kenya.
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Havana, Sept. 4 (AFP) Cuba has decided to allow doctors who deserted while on foreign missions to return home without punishment or loss of position in the state health care system, the government said Friday.
The action comes amid worries of a brain drain of Cuban medical professionals as Cuba loosens long-time restrictions on emigration.
Doctors in particular have faced stringent restrictions on travel since the 1960s, and stiff sanctions awaited those who deserted from government-sponsored missions in foreign countries.Under the new policy announced by the ministry of public health, doctors who deserted while on foreign missions are being welcomed back.
They “have the opportunity, if they so desire, to rejoin our National Health System, and will be guaranteed work placement in conditions similar to those they had before,” a ministry statement said.
Likewise, Cuban doctors who have emigrated under a more open policy introduced in 2013 can also return, although with no guarantee of working for the state system.
In the past, deserters and emigres alike were barred from visiting the country for periods of five to 10 years, or even for life in some cases. An estimated 25,000 doctors and a similar number of health professionals currently serve in international missions in 68 countries.But the missions have been plagued by complaints about low pay and defections.
In recent weeks, about 100 medical deserters turned up in Colombia seeking to travel to the United States under a program adopted in 2006 during the administration of George W. Bush.
Cuba insists it still has one of the highest doctor-patient ratios in the world.
The island receives about $10 billion a year for the medical services it provides other countries, mainly Brazil and Venezuela, making it the top source of hard currency revenues.