The Portuguese government has today approved a decree-law providing for an exceptional and temporary regime recognising foreign academic degrees in medicine for the purpose of hiring doctors for the National Health Service (SNS). It is a decision that has been deeply criticised by doctors’ syndicates, which argue standards are not always the same – particularly in the Latin American countries from which the government is currently recruiting.
State approves bill “recognising medical training abroad” in order to hire foreign doctors
Image of Cuban doctors posted abroad in Wall Street Journal article entitled: "Cuba's slave trade in doctors" https://www.wsj.com/articles/mary-ogrady-cubas-slave-trade-in-doctors-1415573715
