Brasilia, Brazil.- Outraged by the authoritarian and reactionary ideological stance of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian people regret on Thursday the withdrawal of Cuban professionals from ”More Doctors” program in Brazil.

‘We still do not have Bolsonaro as president and he already unprotects and owes about 8,000 doctors to his people,’ architect Manoel Rocha told Prensa Latina, referring to the withdrawal of that number of Cuban doctors due to the disdainful and offensive statements made by the elected governor.

Cuba determined to withdraw its health professionals from the ‘More Doctors’ program because Bolsonaro, ‘with direct, derogatory and threatening references to the presence of our doctors, has declared and reiterated that he will modify the terms and conditions of the ‘More Doctors’ program, with disrespect to the Pan-American Health Organization, and what this entity agreed with Cuba.’

Cuba’s Health Ministry states in a note released on Wednesday that the far-right politician ‘questioned the training of our doctors and conditioned their stay in the program to the revalidation of the diploma and individual recruitment as only way’.

Rocha, 47, regrets that due to ‘stupidities of an former army captain who reached power, but apparently does not want his countrymen, the opportunity to clean up this people, which mostly cannot pay a medical consultation, is going to miss.

No one is a secret that ‘Cuban doctors work in inhospitable areas of difficult access, where Brazilians do not want to go and when doctors leave, health rates will worsen,’ the urban planner from Rio Grande do Sul says.

Public health specialist and retired professor Flavio Goulart told a newspaper that Brazil does not have conditions to replace doctors who will be lost with Cuba’s withdrawal from the program.

The president of Brazil’s National Council of Municipal Health Secretariats (Conasems), Mauro Junqueira, states that the withdrawal of the Cuban professionals can lead to a disassistance of the population, because the Cuban doctors are more than half of the professionals participating in the program.