“What we can’t do is have confidential information and whoever uses the date of that confidentiality is the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Panama, and it comes to light. That means they have this examination before. and they give it to the privileged of the Faculty of Medicine “, He stated.
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Adames dared to say that he has enough arguments to prove even to the President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo, what he stated in the period of incidence this Monday in the plenary of the National Assembly.
“The live game is being done by the country’s medical training institutions and the Faculty of Medicine with Mr. Enrique Mendoza and a limited combo”, He remarked.
Since January 2021 it became known about the existence of a bill amending Law 43 of 2004, which creates the certification and recertification of health professionals and technical specialists proposed by several deputies, including Crispiano Adams and the independent Erick Broce, who was rejected by the population.
However, on Saturday, March 6, the surprise came from the Ministry of Health (Minsa) which had issued a resolution where it decreased in percentage of basic medical certification from 41.5% to 34.5% , generating rejection and controversy.
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The Ministry’s justification was that in the midst of the pandemic it is necessary to have 100% of the places of internal doctors occupied.
Earlier, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Panama, Enrique Mendoza also referred to the bill in the National Assembly that seeks to lower the score.
Mendoza refuted the Ministry of Health and has said it is a lie that there is a shortage of national doctors.
He also said that the certification exam was held on March 5, despite the many obstacles of some officials.
The dean of the Faculty of Medicine requested that the initiatives and decrees that in his opinion destroy the process that has been built in seventy years and mainly in the last seven years with the certification exams be withdrawn.