- President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reproached the UNAM medical students for “going home” instead of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) rejected that it has not collaborated with the Government to combat the pandemic.
- In addition, the UNAM pointed out that it was the Ministry of Health that since March 19, 2020 suspended all activities of the undergraduate clinical cycles.
After a long debate over the hiring of Cuban doctors and the “irresponsibility” that AMLO carries on the shoulders of the students, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador criticized that the Medicine students of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) “went home” instead of attending to the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, undergraduate medical interns left hospitals on April 6, 2020 because health institutions did not provide them with training or equipment against COVID-19 and assigned them “tasks that did not correspond to them”as the Faculty of Medicine said at the time.
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) He rejected that he had not collaborated with the Government to combat the pandemic, clarifying that the medical students were withdrawn due to the prohibition of the Ministry of Health to maintain face-to-face activities.
In addition, the UNAM indicated in a statement this Monday, May 16, 2022 that it was the Ministry of Health that since March 19, 2020 “It suspended all the activities of the undergraduate clinical cycles, requesting the directors of Hospitals and Health Jurisdictions that students not go to health institutions.”
“It was the health authority that, on March 19, 2020, in its official letter DGCES.DG-037-2020, suspended all the activities of the undergraduate clinical cycles, requesting the directors of Hospitals and Health Jurisdictions to students did not go to health institutions”, he recalled.
UNAM specified to AMLO that since the last quarter of 2021, 1,500 UNAM interns have joined hospitals
The highest house of studies specified that since the last quarter of 2021, 1,500 UNAM interns have been integrated into hospitals, joining 14,000 students from other institutions.
In addition, he highlighted that they carried out additional tasks such as the opening of the COVID hospital in the Citibanamex Center, in addition to carrying out tests and delivering kits.
“There are many testimonies of the above. There were thousands, university men and women who in the health crisis they gave themselves with passion. These data and this clarification serve so that society is duly informed about the academic work and the commitment of the National Autonomous University of Mexico”, he added.
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