Tag: Cuban doctors

• Saturday, November 24th 2018 - 06:54 UTC

  Brazil says it has covered 84% of vacancies left by the Cuban doctors

  

  As Cuban doctors in Brazil begin to head home amid a diplomatic spat between Havana and the Brazilian far-right president-elect, the health ministry of the country said nearly 84% of the resulting vacancies had already been filled.

• Tuesday, August 25th 2015 - 15:01 UTC

  Over 700 Cuban doctors working in Venezuela have fled across to Colombia

  

  Deteriorating conditions in Venezuela are causing increasing numbers of Cuban medical personnel working there to immigrate to the United States under a special US program launched in 2006 that expedites their applications.

• Tuesday, July 9th 2013 - 00:09 UTC

  Brazil drops the idea of Cuban doctors and will hire physicians from Spain and Portugal

  

  The Brazilian government, under pressure to improve public health services, has dropped plans to import a contingent of Cuban doctors and is instead looking to hire physicians in Spain and Portugal, the Health Ministry said on Monday.

• Tuesday, May 7th 2013 - 08:54 UTC

  Cuban doctors to Brazil hinterland in exchange for infrastructure works

  

  Brazil said Monday it was negotiating with Havana the possibility of hiring and bringing in around 6,000 Cuban doctors to work in areas where they are needed in the fifth largest country of the world and with a population of 200 million.