Based on an article, hundreds of doctors from Cuba had traveled to Mexico to help it cope with the coronavirus pandemic. Currently, there are 500 doctors from Cuba in Mexico that are helping fill in the gaps of its insufficient number of frontline medical staff. 

Mexico's COVID-19 Problems

According to an article, Mexico had been experiencing a lack of medical staff to go in the frontlines of fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Also, the article reveals that the country needs thousands of medical workers. It stated that the country lacks some specialists that their current workforce in the medical field does not include. 

Another issue in the country that had also affected the total medical personnel allowed to be in the frontlines against the coronavirus pandemic is sending some of the country's workers in the medical industry for being at risk of fatality from COVID-19. 

In March, the medical staff of many hospitals treating COVID-19 patients had stated the need for additional personal protective equipment or PPE to protect them from being infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to an article. It means that the lack of PPE makes them vulnerable to contracting the illness. 

Another seen cause of the insufficient number of medical staff fighting the coronavirus in the frontlines is the increasing number of medical staff contracting the novel coronavirus. According to an article published in April, some of the medical staff in a hospital in Coahuila had contracted the coronavirus from a doctor who had caught the illness from a COVID-19 patient in the hospital. 

Additionally, reports of Mexican medical workers being attacked by the public for fears of spreading the coronavirus had made medical workers fearful. Based on an article, medical workers were wearing their work clothes being attacked by the people by pouring them bleach.

Helping Out Other Nations Fight COVID-19

Cuba had always been proud of its health care system and now they are using their country's expertise in helping out the world, according to an article. Also, at least fifteen nations across the world had accepted help from Cuba by allowing Cuban doctors to support them fight the coronavirus pandemic. The article also spoke about the time when Italy was having great problems with the increasing number of coronavirus infections and deaths and 52 doctors from Cuba were sent to the European country to help. 

Before the pandemic, Cuban doctors have already been going abroad to practice their expertise. The article also reveals that there are 37,000 medical workers from Cuba that are working abroad for the long-term. Furthermore, the article states that Cuba also earns a significant amount from sending their medical professionals abroad. 

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COVID-19 Cases in Mexico and Cuba 

Currently, there are 59,567 coronavirus cases in Mexico where 40,657 people who caught the disease were able to survive it and 6,510 died, according to a coronavirus tracker. 

The tracker also states that there are 1,908 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Cuba. Also, there were 1,603 people to survive the illness and 80 people had fallen from the disease.