Cuban Doctors Human Rights is a movement organized by Cuban Doctors who were forced to move out of Cuba due to the inhumane treatment that we have received as part of Cuba’s medical missions around the world.
Our mission is to shed light on what is happening to our doctors in the Henry Reeve Brigade, which is Cuba’s International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disasters and Serious Epidemics. Over the years, this Brigade, run by the Cuban government, violates the rights of Cuban doctors by involuntarily forcing them to work in other countries for years – an act of human and labor trafficking. In fact, the Government of Cuba forces its doctors to participate in a program where it charges countries for medical care and then pockets most of the earnings.
The majority of western countries have pointed towards this violation of human rights and have demanded Cuba to stop the inhumane treatment of its doctors (among other human rights violations against its citizens).
We recommend modeling the program after the Cuban Doctors’ medical mission in Brazil; Once the Brazilian government realized the human rights violations against Cuban Doctors, Brazil decided to terminate its contract with Cuba and establish cooperation directly with doctors. It amended its laws to grant amnesty to Cuban doctors, a path to medical examination and certificaiton in Brazil, and jobs in their respective medical fields within Brazil. This way, the salaries would be paid directly to the doctors, instead of the Cuban government.