- President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday that his government will hire 500 Cuban doctors to strengthen the health system.
- However, after facing the Covid-19 pandemic for two years, medical workers across the country have been discharged by the Health Institute for Well-being.
- For some, their position doesn’t even exist anymore.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said this Monday that his government will hire 500 Cuban doctors to reinforce the Health, after returning on the eve of a regional tour that ended on the Caribbean island.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the administration of Lopez Obrador, in power since December 2018, also hired a contingent of Cuban doctors to treat patients in the Mexican capital for months. What aroused criticism from sectors of the opposition.
“We are also going to hire doctors from Cuba who are going to come to work in our country; We made this decision because we do not have the doctors we need in the country,” AMLO said in his usual morning conference.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MEXICAN MEDICAL PERSONNEL WHO NEED WORK?
Insabi fires medical personnel who treated Covid-19
However, after facing the coronavirus pandemic for two years, Covid-19, medical workers across the country have been discharged by the Health Institute for Well-being (Insabi) or forced to sign their resignation under the pretext that they also work in another government agency, a situation that is not prevented by law.
Although the Regulation of the Federal Budget and Treasury Responsibility Lawin article 138, authorizes having more than one job in the public sector as long as they demonstrate compatibility of schedules, the Human Resources Coordinator, Candelario Pérez Alvarado, signed the CRHRP 02/04-2022 statement in April that conditions the rehiring of May to August for the workers to declare “not hold another job, position or commission in the Public Administration”.
“We have shown that we have compatibility of schedules and despite everything, we are asked to bring the resignation letters (from the other jobs) so that Insabi can renew our contract or else they will discharge us,” accused Dr. Mercy Sánchez, who works at the Agustín O’horán General Hospital in Mérida, Yucatán, and is a professor at the Benito Juárez Welfare University in Ticul.
Even the Insabi authorities warn them that if they do not voluntarily resign and they are discharged, they will no longer be considered to return to work in the dependency.
“Since they no longer need us, they discard us”, lamented Elizabeth López Jaramillo, a nurse at the General Hospital Miguel Hidalgo in Tejupilco, State of Mexico, mother of three children, who on February 3 was forced to sign her resignation in a letter addressed to the director of Insabi, Juan Antonio Ferrer, “so suit my interests.”
But in the complaint that entered the Public Function Secretary She assures that they wrote that letter at the hospital and forced her to sign it since she had been working at the hospital for 15 years. IMSS Saturdays and Sundays and holidays and also at the Regional Hospital of the Social Security Institute of the State of Mexico (Issemym).
Elizabeth López assures that she never hid her work, and when the call of the Insabi, the Issemym authorities encouraged her to sign up because she urgently needed staff against Covid-19. Only she and her husband took the risk. Both were forced to resign for the same reason. although in her case it was because she was registered in the IMSS job bank where she has not worked since April 2021.
In Issemym they have told him that his position no longer exists.
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