“What we can’t do is there is confidential information and whoever handles the data of that confidentiality is the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Panama, and it comes to light. That means they’ve had that exam before and that they give it to them. to the privileged of the Faculty of Medicine “, he claimed.
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Adames dared to say that he has enough arguments to prove even to the president of the republic, Laurentino Cortizo, what he said on Monday during the plenary session of the National Assembly.
He added that the medical certification exam currently being applied in the country is from the United States and only UP medicine students receive exclusive training, while those coming from overseas and private universities consider it as “blind man. ” develop.
“He plays live and is done by the country’s medical training institutes and the Faculty of Medicine, with Mr. Enrique Mendoza and a limited combo”, he noted.
Since January 2021, it has become known about the existence of a bill amending Law 43 of 2004, which creates the certification and recertification of health workers and technical specialists proposed by several delegates, including Crispiano Adames and the independent Erick Broce, which was rejected by the population.
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On Saturday, March 6, however, the surprise came from the Ministry of Health (Minsa), which issued a resolution that dropped the percentage of basic drug certification from 41.5% to 34.5%, leading to rejection. And controversial.
The justification for the Minsa was that it is necessary in the midst of the pandemic to have 100% of the positions of in-house physicians occupied.
Earlier, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Panama, Enrique Mendoza, also referred to the bill in the National Assembly that aims to lower the score.
Mendoza refuted the health ministry, saying it is a lie that there is a shortage of national doctors.
He also said the certification exam was taken on March 5, despite many obstacles from some officials.
The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine requested the withdrawal of the initiatives and decrees that he believes destroy the process built up over seventy years and especially the last seven years with the certification exams.