Medical students are used by drug traffickers

• April 27, 2024

First the police, then the children, then the businessmen, and now, it is the doctors and health workers who have become perfect targets of crime for the kidnapping, extortion, homicide and even, for forced recruitment or of its workforce at the service of organized crime groups.

Medical students from Nuevo Leon, Sonora and Guanajuato have set alarm bells on the Ministry of Health and the universities to adopt policies that protect their students.

New Lion

Approximately 10 Medicine students who carried out their social service in localities in the north of the state have been victims of express kidnapping to assist members of organized crime who are injured in various confrontations.

The director of the University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Santos Guzmán López, affirms that while the students are fulfilling their social service in rural communities , organized crime takes them by force.

Sonora

In addition to dealing with drug traffickers, young students also suffer from shortages of basic infrastructure and medicines, which exposes them to organized crime groups operating in rural and border regions.

Guanajuato

On July 17, about 400 medical interns from the state of Guanajuato, issued an ultimatum to the government of that entity in which they demanded they be guaranteed security, mainly in rural communities, mainly more incommunicado.

Until now, there are no figures or statistics that can reveal the approximate number of victims related to medicine and its different branches and specialties, lacerated by criminal groups in the country, but doctors from all over the Mexican Republic are expected to meet with authorities from the Health Sector, Law Enforcement and Security, to propose the problems of violence that drag this sector of professionals.

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