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September 21, 2016 By Fausta

Brazil: Adeus, médicos cubanos

Good-bye, Cuban doctors!

Brazil Seeks to Replace Cuban Doctors with Brazilians in Rural Health Program. Plans to replace up to 4,000 Cuban doctors with Brazilians in next three years

The Brazilian government said Wednesday it plans to greatly reduce the number of Cuban doctors working in a health care initiative that has brought thousands of physicians from the Caribbean island to underserved communities across the South American nation.

Brazil will continue a program called Mais Médicos, or More Doctors, to address a chronic lack of physicians that has mainly affected remote rural areas, the country’s health ministry said. But the government hopes to attract more Brazilian doctors to the program, to replace the foreign professionals.

As you may recall, Brazil’s medical association did not want the uncertified Cuban medics but were persuaded to accept them,

The reduction of Cuban doctors attending the program was expected after President Michel Temer, a member of the center-right Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, took office.

The program was started by former President Dilma Rousseff, whose leftist Workers’ Party has historic ties with Cuban leaders. At the time it was created, the initiative generated huge controversy among Brazilian medical associations, which claimed the foreign doctors weren’t well prepared and had poor skills, putting Brazilians’ health at risk.

Either way, the country faces a chronic shortage of qualified medical personnel.

Related:
Cuba’s Slave Trade in Doctors. Havana earns almost $8 billion a year off the backs of the health workers it sends to poor countries.

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May 13, 2016 By Fausta

Brazil: Cuban “doctors” under investigation over fake diplomas

Under the “Mais Médicos” agreement signed by Dilma Rousseff’s administration and the Cuban government, which raised serious ethical concerns regarding human trafficking, 11,000-plus Cuban doctors were sent to work in Brazil.

Now Brazilian media reports that the country’s Federal Police is investigating a fraud scheme where fake diplomas for medical doctors were revalidated in Brazil for Mais Médicos participants,

According to PF, the investigation started after the Federal University of Mato Grosso contacted Bolivian universities (Universidad Nacional Ecológica, Universidad Técnico Privada Cosmos and Universidad Mayor de San Simon), who confirmed that among those enrolled in the revalidation program, 41 had never studied at or had not graduated from these institutions.

Meanwhile, Carlos Eire reports that

Harvard’s Public Health Review has just called for the cancellation of the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, due to the Zika virus epidemic.

If the Olympics are held in Brazil, claims an article in this Harvard journal, the Zika virus will spread to the whole world.

Socialist health policies, today.



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March 31, 2014 By Fausta

Brazil: We shall soon be hearing about the “excellent healthcare”

Government Health Program Hires 41 Semiofficial Doctors
Semiofficial, you say?

Despite not fulfilling all the Ministry of Health´s requirements, 41 Brazilian community doctors recently trained in Venezuela were chosen to work for the government´s More Doctors (Mais Médicos) program.

They graduated in November from the Dr. Salvador Allende Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) founded in 2007 by former president Hugo Chávez. Most are linked to left leaning organizations such as the PT or Landless Workers´ Movement. The group has returned to Brazil without fulfilling all the requirements stipulated in article 8 of the Venezuelan Law for the Practice of Medicine.

“After graduating they must practice as a rural doctor for a year or do a two year internship. If not, the ministry won´t sign the diploma and they won´t be able to do a post graduate degree, practice privately or anything else. They are incomplete doctors,” said Fernando Bianco, the Chávez supporting President of the Caracas College of Doctors to Folha.

Ooops,

The non compliance with this requirement contradicts the hiring norms of Mais Médicos as published on January 16. The legal document stipulates that Brazilian doctors trained abroad must prove they are “qualified to practice abroad.”

In fact, they’re not qualified to practice anywhere.

UPDATE:
Linked to by Dustbury. Thank you!

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September 7, 2013 By Fausta

Brasil: Médico cubano relata exploração do trabalho na Ilha dos irmãos Castro

Cuban doctor Carlos Rafael Jorge Jiménez, now a naturalized Brazilian citizen, speaks out at the Chamber of Deputies (Congress) about the reality of the slave labor conditions Cuban “doctors” will endure. If you understand Spanish, you’ll understand his Portuguese.

h/t Capitol Hill Cubans

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