Cuban doctors may be re-hired if Brazil’s More Doctors program returns
Federal court authorities in Brazil decided to authorize the re-hiring of Cuban doctors who worked in the Mais Médicos (“More Doctors”) program.The decision grants a request from the association representing 1.7 thousand Cuban exchange students who stayed in Brazil. The ruling was signed Friday (Jan. 27) by Judge Carlos Augusto Pires Brandão, in Brasília.The association argued that doctors who came to the country to work in the program, created in 2013 by then-President Dilma Rousseff, did not have their contract renewed under Médicos pelo Brasil (“Doctors all around Brazil”), created under Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.According to the association, the Cuban medics selected in the 20th cycle of the program had a two-year contract that could not be extended, while the deal for the ...