The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCYT) assured that the situation of 30 medical students in Cuba is currently being resolved, for whom the maintenance contract they have benefited from has expired.
Through a press release, he reported that the Mescyt minister, Franklin García Fermín, had ordered that maintenance benefits be extended to them so that they could continue their studies.
In this regard, the Managing Director of the International Scholarship Directorate, Roger Thomas Mora, said that Mescyt is in the process of implementing the measure, for which it has been in contact with the students to expedite the procedures to be followed. consider.
He explained that the students’ current situation is due to the fact that they were forced to return to the country as a result of the attacks triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide, and the restrictions imposed by the affected Nations.
The official assured that the students will receive the aid once the ratification process of the documents with the renewal of the contract is completed, with the Cuban universities and hospitals where they are studying.
He stated that Minister García Fermín will be alert to any situation of Dominican scholarship students or those receiving alimony to seek immediate resolution.
Mora attributes the origins of some scholarship situations to the ailments caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced many to return to the country to resume their study programs.
He does not indicate how much the contribution for the maintenance of these professionals is.
The complaint
A group of temporary GPs, who decided to remain anonymous, denounced that they had been waiting for the Mescyt for more than six months to fulfill the maintenance contract renewal promise in order to satisfactorily proceed to the completion of their specialty.
“We have done everything asked of us and everything is by legal means. We are still waiting and we cannot take it anymore ”, they say in a press release.
Doctors study different specialties in Cuba.