CIENFUEGOS, May 17 (Sunset Nogueras Rofes) – Several physicians from
the area of Cienfuegos, in central Cuba, have left the island recently in spite
of the official obstacles for doctors to emigrate. Each has found a wrinkle that
has allowed him or her to skirt regulations which require a five-year waiting
period for physicians or other health professionals who want to leave Cuba.
Aureliano González López, 40, a hematologist, was the director
of the provincial Blood Bank in Cienfuegos and considered "trusted" by
Public Health authorities. Precisely for those reasons, he was allowed to attend
post-graduate courses in Spain starting in September, 2000. On April 30, the
provincial director of Public Health, Dr. Salvador Tamayo, acknowledged during a
meeting of Communist Party members that Dr. González had fled the island.
A week earlier, Dr. Andrea Josefa Pérez, a recent graduate in
Dermatology, changed her address to Havana and later left Cuba presumably with a
Spanish husband.
In March, Dr. Yusimí Núñez Figueredo, 30, left the
country, apparently from her own province, before anyone noticed that, as a
doctor, she was enjoined from leaving. Five days later, she managed to get her
two children, ages 5 and 6, through Havana's airport.
A pediatrician who had been fulfilling a four-year sanitary mission to
Guinea Bissau,
also deserted, it was learned here yesterday. Pablo David Alfonso Vera, 40,
came back to Cuba on vacation and, upon returning to his post, was surprised to
find that his mission had been revoked. He subsequently asked for asylum in
Portugal, said his relatives.
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