A group of Mexican doctors and specialists arrived this Sunday at the Comandante Faustino Pérez Surgical Clinical Hospital in Matanzas to support the health personnel of that institution in caring for those injured during the fire of great proportions that broke out this Friday at the Supertanker Base of that province.
“The support group of our brother people of Mexico has just arrived at the Cmdte Faustino Pérez Surgical Clinical Hospital. Doctors, nurses, specialists in reconstructive surgeries, make up this group,” the official media announced on its Facebook account. radius 26.
The Matanzas station also shared images of the doctors, who arrived dressed in military uniform and a bracelet that highlights their mission as humanitarian aid. The doctors were received by the country’s health authorities.
The arrival of these Mexican specialists responds to a request for international aid launched this Saturday by the Cuban government to “friendly countries”given the impossibility of controlling, on its own, the incident that consumed at least two fuel tanks.
One of the first governments in the area to respond was that of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), who initially referred to the sending of experts from the Petróleos de México (PEMEX) group. The president even issued a presidential order to speed up the delivery of aid to the island.
in the night of yesterday Several specialists from the Latin American country and Venezuela arrived in Matanzas. “A flight with the help of Mexico has already landed at the Juan Gualberto Gómez airport, located on the highway between Matanzas and Varadero… This is the first plane to arrive. It transports 82 Mexicans, of them 60 military personnel and 16 oil specialist technicians, ”said the provincial government of People’s Power in a publication on social networks.
According to the authorities, three helicopters and a Boeing 737-700 of the Mexican Air Force were also to arrive on the island, which would be used to put out the fire, which has already caused the death of a firefighterthe disappearance of another 16 rescuers and 122 people injured.
The presence of these Mexican doctors in Cuba seems to reinforce the alliance between the two countries, since last July López Obrador received the first 60 Cuban specialists of a total of 500 doctors who will come to your nation as part of the agreements signed in May by the two governments.
At the beginning of this month it was leaked that AMLO will pay the Havana regime more than a million dollars a month for hiring the doctors. The agreement signed between the IMSS (Mexican Institute of Social Security) and the so-called Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos, SA, contemplates “the payment to the regime of Miguel Díaz-Canel of a ‘moderate’ fee of 1,177,300 dollars per month”, at a fixed exchange rate of 20.70 pesos per dollar for one year, according to a local newspaper report The financial.
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