By Alexander Salmon | 11:48 am 20 julio, 2022
The director of the Faculty of Medicine of the UACH, Luis Carlos Hinojos, spoke out against the provision of social service by graduates of the public university.
In a post addressed to the Secretary of Health of the Federal Government, Jorge Alcocer, who defended the provision of this service, the Chihuahuan professor considered that this provision is “out of place.”
Hinojos called service providers “extremely cheap skilled labor” in his response to the Secretary of Health.
In a statement to the newspaper Reforma, Secretary Alcocer pointed out that medical internships in insecure areas of the country cannot be ruled out, since it is an “academic necessity” that cannot be canceled.
In discussion with the federal official, Hinojos said that the aforementioned service is not an academic necessity for the graduates, but rather an administrative one for the Government.
“Physician interns save the federal government a lot of resources,” he said.
“In current times where as a society we have advanced in terms of human rights, dignity of the person and the professions, the current scheme of social service in Medicine is out of place,” he said.
Hinojos’ letter to Alcocer occurred in the context of a series of claims and protests by medical students, especially from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, because they do not want to provide their social service in insecure areas of the state.
The claim arose as a result of the murder of the anesthesiologist Masiel Mexía, who worked at the IMSS Bienestar clinic in San Juanito, municipality of Bocoyna.
Students carried out this Tuesday a march in protest for these conditions of insecurity and directed their claim to the delegation of the IMSS. Meanwhile, the director of Medicine was yesterday in Bordeaux, France