因向往美国而叛逃的古巴医务工作者

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Victoria Burnett and Frances Robles, 因向往美国而叛逃的古巴医务工作者. 纽约时报中文网, Dec 21, 2015
cn.nytimes.com/world/20151221/c21cubadoctors/

, which is translated from

Victoria Burnett and Frances Robles, Cuba-US Ties Being Strained as Doctors Flee. Dec 20, 2015 (front page).

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"a 2006 program that offers American residency to Cuban medical workers posted overseas. * * * More than 7,000 Cubans have been approved for residency since the program began almost a decade ago, according to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.  According to Homeland Security statistics, 1,663 Cuban medical professionals posted overseas were accepted to enter the United States in the 2015 fiscal year, a 32 percent increase from the year before. The number of doctors admitted to the program has more than tripled since 2011, when 386 people were approved.

"Dr Lino Alberto Neira, an orthopedic surgeon who practiced in Cuba for 23 years before he left for Miami in 2013, said that his monthly salary of $25 back home barely lasted four days.

"According to the United Nations, Cuba has one of the world’s highest rates of physicians per capita. But with so many deployed overseas, [inside Cuba] medical workers are fewer and less experienced than before the large overseas deployments began in the early 2000s, health workers and ordinary Cubans complain.

"José Angel Sánchez, 29, who moved to [Paterson, New Jersey] in September, four years after he graduated [from a Cuban medical school] * * * Dr Mara Martínez, a dentist who is Dr Sánchez’s fiancée * * * In Miami, Dr Neira is caring for an older Cuban man and studying to be a nurse because his Cuban qualifications are not recognized. In Paterson, Dr Sánchez, who works on a ragged downtown strip in a job that pays $15 an hour, said he planned to do the same. First, though, Dr Martínez, his fiancée, will try to get her dentistry license.

My comment: There is no need to read the rest.