BRAZILIA, Brazil.- Former President Dilma Rousseff stated that Brazil found the solidarity, fraternity and competence of Cuban professionals in the Most Doctors Program, the most important in health in the last 20 years.

Rousseff acknowledged that her country has a huge shortage of physicians, and Cuba has a solid health system and an immense practice of teaching on the basis of public health, on preventing ailments and treating people in clinics.

The former Brazilian President explained that More Doctors emerged when we discovered that Brazil had 63 million of people without medical attention, and we first organized s contest for the Brazilian doctor to participate, but only a few showed up.

When there were problems with an earthquake and cholera in Haiti and Ebola were reborn in other nations, we realized that the Cuban doctors were those who could deal systematically and massively, Dilma Rouseff commented.

Cuban Professionals Came to Brazil in a Very Generous Way

The former Brazilian President, Dilma Rouseff, said that in view of the health situation in Brazil, we resorted to Cuba and signed an agreement through the Pan American Health Organization.

The island’s professionals, Rousseff continued, came to Brazil and in an extremely generous and progressive way reached 11000, when I was President and I was the subject of a coup d’état later.

Those Cuban doctors had an important attitude, because they treated the Brazilians as people, they were not distant professionals who only prescribed.

They made their history and diagnosis, visited the houses, had a close relationship to help selflessly. Roussef highlighted that it was so much difference that when an investigation was made, the Brazilian people voted for Cuban doctors, which had an approval of almost one hundred percent.