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The Government does not contemplate collaborating with Cuba to deal with the coronavirus. It is your posture right now. Among the Executive's plans is not to recruit Cuban doctors, as for example Italy has done, or even add those who reside in Spain to the staff but are pending the certification of the title. Health has also not decided to stock up on the antiviral Interferon Alfa-2B manufactured by the Caribbean country, despite the fact that it recognizes it as a drug to be used in treatment and despite admitting that it lacks sufficient stock .
The Cuban road as a sum to fight Covid-19 does not appear in the Government's road map. Not even in spite of the fact that communities such as Valencia or Catalonia have requested the hiring of doctors from this country. Moncloa's position, according to sources consulted, is to reject any wink to Cuba at the moment, among other things, due to the fear that exists in a sector of the PSOE to request this aid at a time when they govern in coalition with Podemos and that that is used to exacerbate criticism.
This reluctance of the Executive was made clear by the president of the Valencian Community , Ximo Puig, who this week admitted that they are studying the hiring of Cuban media to strengthen their health system, but admitted that he did not want "any type of contraindication or conflict" and that he was looking for an adequate dialogue with the governments of Spain and Cuba. The communities point out that they transferred their intentions to Foreign Affairs and that the matter was left there.
But as this newspaper has learned, the last word has been Health , which does not consider that hiring relevant. The minister, Salvador Illa, made it clear this Monday, March 30, that he appreciated the offer of other countries to send professionals -as Cuba is willing and Italy, France in their overseas territories or Andorra have accepted-, but he ruled it out because it was already They have mobilized personnel resources at the national level and they are planning to increase this route. Of course, Illa was forced not to close that door completely: "For the moment we have not activated them, if necessary we would."
Health, until now, I was not even counting on the Cuban doctors present in Spain, who admit to feeling frustrated. Hundreds of them gathered to ask the Government to accept them to cooperate in the health fight against the coronavirus. "We offer our help and remain at the disposal of public health to fight the pandemic," was his message to the Government. They even articulated an online mobilization to be heard. They ask to "be useful." The promoters speak of "more than 200 Cuban doctors who are not working pending the approval of the degree, or already approved but in different migratory situations that prevent us from practicing."
From the Ministry of Health, they explain that they have already promoted the hiring of nearly 200 foreign professionals and that Cubans are included in this group of professionals if, as in the case of the rest of the nationalities, they comply with the pertinent processing requirements to regularize the administrative situation. , obtaining a work permit or certification of title.
Out of stock of the Cuban antiviral used in China
Spain has also not asked Cuba to collaborate in the manufacture and / or purchase of the antiviral Interferon Alfa 2B, one of the drugs with which Covid-19 has been treated in China. And this despite the fact that in a technical document on the medical treatment of the virus, Health recognizes that Lopinavir / Ritonavir together with inhaled interferon 2B "is the recommended treatment in China for the treatment of patients with Covid-19 pneumonia".
In another official guide, entitled Treatments available for the management of respiratory infection by SARS-CoV-2 , it assumes that “the stock available at the moment does not guarantee sufficient units for all patients, so it is necessary to carry out a balanced distribution and control of stocks in order to reserve the available units to those patients who are receiving interferon treatment for their authorized indications ”.
The Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology of Cuba (CIGB) has transferred that it has the capacity to evaluate in a relatively short period of time a demand from the Spanish government and supply the medication or, even, an agreement could be reached to manufacture the drug in Spain , under Cuban license, as has already been done in China.
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