Fifty one Cuban medical specialists have arrived in Italy to compensate for workers shortages in public hospitals.
Over time, spending cuts in public well being have slowed down the recruitment of recent docs in all Italian areas, particularly these going through the largest well being system challenges, like Calabria, within the south of the nation.
“The employment of Cuban docs just isn't a structural answer. Open requires physicians is the structural answer and we're doing that," defined Roberto Occhiuto, president of Calabria Area. "It's an emergency answer as a result of I will need to have, in my toolbox, all of the instruments to forestall the closure of hospitals.”
Cuban docs are famend worldwide for his or her competence and professionalism, but it surely's the human facet of the position which seems to drive these medical professionals.
“It's a new expertise, I'll get to know a special tradition and I'll assist folks in want which is the purpose of our occupation -- serving to individuals who want our assist essentially the most,” defined one heart specialist.
The primary Cuban docs will quickly begin working in numerous Calabrian hospitals. Within the meantime, they've been attending a course in Italian to enhance their communication expertise with native colleagues and Italian sufferers.
The docs are finding out Italian on the College of Calabria in Cosenza. They're the primary of a gaggle of just about 500 Cuban physicians who will work in Calabrian hospitals for a minimum of one yr.
Many have households ready for them at house, however this doesn't appear to be an issue for them.
“My household is aware of the selfless and humanitarian training of Cuban docs and understands the desire of our folks to offer medical assist to these nations, whether or not developed or under-developed, who want it,” stated one Cuban radiologist.
“A life saved in a kind of hospitals that I ought to have closed is price greater than a thousand debates, regardless that this life has been saved by an excellent Cuban physician fairly than by an Italian physician,” Roberto Occhiuto stated.
Serving to save lives -- a mission that Cuban docs have been finishing up for a few years in all corners of the world -- and now right here in Europe.
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