{"id":21939,"date":"2023-12-25T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T11:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/report-cuban-doctors-ask-for-help-to-continue-practicing-in-cape-verde"},"modified":"2023-12-25T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T11:20:15","slug":"report-cuban-doctors-ask-for-help-to-continue-practicing-in-cape-verde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/report-cuban-doctors-ask-for-help-to-continue-practicing-in-cape-verde","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Cuban doctors ask for help to continue practicing in Cape Verde"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Cape verde. <\/strong><\/span>Yosmel Cabrera landed in Cape Verde in 2020 to help in the fight against Covid-19, but decided to stay and is now one of seven ‘deserted’ doctors from that country who are begging to continue living and practicing in the archipelago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m not asking for anything extraordinary, I’m simply asking to work and do the thing I love most, which is to be a doctor,\u201d the general surgery doctor, one of the 33 Cuban specialists who arrived in April, told Lusa news agency. of 2020 to Cape Verde, one month after the first cases of covid-19 in the archipelago.<\/p>\n

For three years, he worked most of his time at Hospital Batista de Sousa (HBS), in S\u00e3o Vicente, with various functions, within the scope of medical cooperation between the two countries, which has been going on for almost 50 years.<\/p>\n

Before the cooperation period ended, he brought his family to Cape Verde, currently residing on the island of Sal, and has already tried to join the Order of Cape Verdean Doctors (OMC), but the condition is to have a work contract with the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n

Therefore, he said that he has already requested hearings from the Minister of Health, Filomena Gon\u00e7alves, and has already sent emails to other people responsible for the sector, expressing interest in continuing to work in Cape Verde’s National Health System (SNS).<\/p>\n

\u201cBut until today no one has answered me\u201d, lamented the clinician, trained in vascular surgery, appearing disappointed, because he never thought \u201cthat there would be so many problems, so many barriers from a legal and political point of view\u201d.<\/p>\n

But he assured that he will continue to knock on several doors, with the hope of resolving his situation, even though he believes that the person behind it is the Cuban embassy in Cape Verde.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware of the great diplomatic pressure that is being placed on the Ministry of Health so that this hiring of a free Cuban doctor in Cape Verde does not happen,\u201d said Cabrera, one of seven doctors who are asking for \u201cone more opportunity\u201d in the country African.<\/p>\n

The case is already known to the international movement SOS Cuba, in Cape Verde, which has also multiplied its calls for a resolution as soon as possible, as Yanira Monteiro, spokesperson for the group of compatriots residing in Praia, told Lusa. country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a situation that worries us a lot\u201d, described the jurist who has lived in Cape Verde since 1995, highlighting that this is a human being who is in a situation of \u201cserious fragility\u201d, together with his wife and a four-year-old child.<\/p>\n

The doctor is now considered a \u201ctraitor\u201d in Cuba, and by law, he cannot return to the country for the next eight years and if he enters the island sooner he risks facing a prison sentence of three to eight years.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I don\u2019t want to go back to Cuba because I simply chose Cape Verde as my second homeland. It\u2019s the place where I want my son to grow up in peace, tranquility and freedom\u201d, he told Lusa, via video call, from the island of Sal.<\/p>\n

The SOS Cuba movement, which was born spontaneously in July 2021 in each country of Cuban residents, lamented the \u201cinjustice\u201d and \u201cviolation\u201d of human rights, in a country also full of emigrants and in need of this \u201chighly qualified technician\u201d.<\/p>\n

Yanira Monteiro also protested against what she considers to be a \u201ccampaign\u201d by the Cuban embassy in Cape Verde to indirectly \u201ccover up\u201d the doctors’ complaints, and explained that there are similar contracts in other countries, with a prohibition clause on the part of the ‘country’. guest’ to hire \u201ccooperating\u201d doctors after the mission.<\/p>\n

Asked to comment on the matter, the President of the Cape Verdean Medical Association, Danielson da Veiga, confirmed that he had already received the request and explained that there are two ways of registering with the association, one directly for Cape Verdeans and the other for foreigners, who need of a contract with services authorized by the Ministry of Health, or exercise when there is reciprocity with another country.<\/p>\n

Therefore, he said that the order cannot do anything in this case, remembering that there are \u201crules\u201d in the country and asked his professional colleague for \u201cpatience\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone who wanted to stay in Cape Verde followed normal procedures,\u201d he said, saying that Yosmel Cabrera \u201cleft a negative mark\u201d and created a \u201cdifficult situation\u201d between the two countries with his criticism in the media.<\/p>\n

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