Jonathan Watts – The Guardian, 08/28/2013
Dilma Rousseff, the Brazilian president, has accused the nation’s doctors of “immense prejudice” towards their Cuban counterparts after the first medics to arrive from Havana were greeted with jeers.
The Cuban doctors have been invited to work in Brazil to support the fragile health system – one of the issues that prompted mass protests in June. Under the government’s Mais Médicos (More Doctors) programme, 4,000 Cuban professionals will work in poor and remote areas of Brazil that are short of hospital staff.
After the first contingent of 400 arrived at the weekend they were booed by local doctors, who oppose what they describe as a stop-gap measure that fails to address the need for more investment in hospitals and better pay for doctors.
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