It’s not just quick missions like in a natural disaster, Brazil has ~25000 Cuban doctors right now, kinda permanently.
Doctors here don’t want to work in rural areas, so the government made a deal with Cuba to bring them here so that these communities aren’t left without any access to healthcare.
In Brazil Cuban doctors come to work in small towns and isolated regions where local doctors refuse to work.
They provide health care to indigenous communities in remote areas and in the poorest regions of the country
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Doctors here don’t want to work in rural areas, so the government made a deal with Cuba to bring them here so that these communities aren’t left without any access to healthcare.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_medical_internationalism
The patients used to love them. Great doctors, amazing people. But Brazilian doctors hate them in a way that rendered several memes about it.
They provide health care to indigenous communities in remote areas and in the poorest regions of the country