Pedro Sebastião was responding this Tuesday in the National Assembly to comments raised by Members regarding the Covid-19 Pandemic Control Activities Report, presented in Parliament.
The arrival of Cuban doctors and the salary conditions for them have been subject to criticism mainly from the Angolan medical class, and the National Union of Doctors of Angola has even considered paralysing the services in protest.
According to Pedro Sebastião, the government considers this complaint a non-issue, because it is "used to living these situations".
"And if we look at the real country that we are, look where the sun most punishes, who are the doctors there? With all the respect we have from the class, but we'll find there, in municipalities we all know, these doctors lending all their professionalism, all their dedication, to minimize the problems we live with today, with difficulties to put health professionals in quantity and quality in those points", he stressed.
Faced with the picture he described, Pedro Sebastião considered that the situation "on its own does not require comments".
Angola had costs of 79.3 million dollars to hire Cuban specialists for medical assistance in the country.
In April, the Health Minister, Silvia Lutucuta, announced the arrival of 244 Cuban doctors in the country, with the aim of helping in the fight against the new coronavirus, and that they were distributed throughout Angolan territory.
For the doctors' union, the class is being devalued by the government, as Cuban colleagues have been given a salary of five thousand dollars, according to information provided by Silvia Lutucuta at a press conference.
