“If some sectors are so interested in making money, let them open a hamburger restaurant or a supermarket, but without profiting from education,” the MP stressed as she spoke in the Upper House on a bill about the postponement for five years of the implementation of new majors for the sector, ABC Color reports.

“Higher education is in crisis,” Martinez noted, and was against opening new qualifications, but “without affecting universities or faculties that are in order and comply with the requirements for medical students.”

The legislator recalled Paraguay has 39 Schools of Medicine but not all of them can train professionals to guarantee the health care of the population. “We see every day that a patient had one leg removed, but it was the other one; he had a hernia but they removed his testicle, and so on,” the senator questioned.

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