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Judi Lynn

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Wed Aug 17, 2022, 11:53 PM Aug 2022

Cuban doctor among three shot dead at hospital in Mexico

Doctor killed along with a nurse and another woman at a hospital in the suburb of Ecatepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City

Associated Press in Mexico City
Tue 16 Aug 2022 12.56 EDT

A Cuban doctor has been shot dead at a hospital in a rough neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City, prosecutors in the state of Mexico confirmed late on Monday.

The doctor, whose name was not provided, was killed on Friday along with a nurse and another woman at a hospital in the suburb of Ecatepec.

The killing comes after criticism of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s plan to hire hundreds of Cuban doctors to work where Mexican doctors aren’t available, or in areas where they don’t want to work because they are too dangerous or remote.

The Cuban doctor killed in Ecatepec was not part of the current hiring program, but his death raised questions over the safety of the plan.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/cuban-doctor-shot-to-death-mexico-hospital

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Cuban doctor among three shot dead at hospital in Mexico (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2022 OP
That really sucks. Marcus IM Aug 2022 #1

Marcus IM

(2,226 posts)
1. That really sucks.
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 12:12 AM
Aug 2022

Best wishes to the families and friend of all killed and wounded.

These noble Cuban volunteer doctors are very brave.

Cuba makes friends and allies with doctors and educators, not guns and bombs.

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