Cuba Graduates 400 Venezuelan Doctors

Source: Prensa Latina

Camaguey, Cuba Jul 24 (Prensa Latina) Nearly 400 physicians graduated Tuesday from Cuban universities, linked to the integrationist project of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), Venezuelan Consul General Victor Delgado confirmed.

The diplomat pointed out these professionals have been trained under the humanist concept, and they will go back to their country, where significant changes in health services have been taking place, to provide poor people with free medical assistance.

Delgado was at the local Medical School in Camaguey, 331 miles from Havana, for the graduation of 558 health professionals, Cuban and 19 other nationalities, including 59 Venezuelans.

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He thanked the Cuban people for their collaboration, which made it easier for these new Venezuelan doctors to complete their training to strengthen health services in that nation.
The diplomat pointed out that ALBA is not a dream, but a reality that materializes on the road of Latin American integration.

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Scares the hell outta the corporatists.

--while the Eye of Sauron is turned east focusing on The Precious.

And I'm no fan of Fidel either, so that's just a nice thing to do. The Cubans use very cool medicine techniques they are more in tune with their patients, because they don't use advanced diagnostics widely. Very interesting, I remember seeing something about it on CNN.

The US model of Corporatized medical sucks mostly. The overworked doctors just about have to put people on assembly lines to pay back the student loans and all the other extra highfalutin stuff

Cuba trains American medical students — to work in US
Milan Korcok

Florida

Eight young Americans have recently taken up President Fidel Castro's offer of a free medical education in Cuba, much to the chagrin of American anti-Castro groups.

Castro hopes that the 8 students, all from low-income, minority families and communities where health care is in short supply, will be the vanguard of a corps of up to 500 US students taking advantage of Cuba's willingness to train doctors to treat poor Americans. The next 30 students from the US will arrive this summer.

The offer originated last year after Castro met with the US Congressional Black Caucus. Benny Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, complained of the high infant mortality rate and lack of doctors in his district.

Castro responded by offering to educate students from low-income American families who agreed to return to their communities after the 6 years of training. Cuba is paying all costs save for the students' airfare.

The Americans won't be alone in Cuba. More than 3400 medical students from 23 Latin American, African and Caribbean countries are already being trained at Cuba's expense. After intensive Spanish-language training, since all courses are taught in Spanish, the students spend their first 2 years at the Latin American School of Medical Sciences in Havana and then move on to 1 of Cuba's 21 other schools.
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http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/164/10/1477

on the condition they return to their native countries and provide free health care to the poor and dispossed.

Fidel made an offer to American students of a free medical education on the proviso they returned home and provide medical care to the needy. The offer still stands. Hillary won't talk to Cuba. WWJD?

U.S. students graduate from Cuban med school

Castro’s communist government paid for education for 8 minorities

HAVANA - Eight American students graduated from a Cuban medical school on Tuesday and said they planned to put six years of education paid for by Fidel Castro’s communist government to use in hospitals back home.

The four New Yorkers, three Californians and a Minnesota native, all from minority backgrounds, began studying in Havana in April 2001. They are the first class of Americans to graduate from the Latin American School of Medicine since Castro offered free training to U.S. students seven year ago following meetings with members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

“I’ve learned that medicine is not a business,” said Toussaint Reynolds, a graduate from Massapequa, New York. “I will be a better doctor in the United States for it.”

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On Tuesday, about 2,100 students from 25 countries graduated from the medical school, including some 1,200 medical doctors, as well as dentists, nurses and medical technicians. More than 10,000 students attend the school that opened in 1999 to provide free training to foreign students from disadvantaged families.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19942866/

in the US. It absolutely boggles the mind. The brave people who tried to help 9/11 victims at ground zero and later contracted ailments related to that experience could not get insurance to cover it in the US!!!So they went to Cuba and this little country with a stressed economy invited them for treatment.
Watch M. Moore's "Sicko" for whole story.

:mad:

Hooray for Cuba!

K&R

by the time 9/11 occured. They had great credentials, had _Bush "lowered" himself enough to accept their help when they offered it immediately after it happened, having filled their doctor bags, and outfitting a large number of doctors to fly to the U.S.

_Bush really looked bad turning them down.

One wonderful example of their work was with the victims of Chernobyl:

Chernobyl children in Cuba - radiation victims are treated
Progressive, The, Nov, 1994 by Alex Tehrani
Tarara, Cuba

This beach-front town twenty kilometers east of downtown Havana was once a resort area for the wealthy. After the Cuban revolution, it became a recreational summer camp for Cuban children. In the past four years, the ethnic makeup of Tarara has become heavily Ukrainian, as Soviet children arrive by the thousands to receive treatment for illnesses related to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

The idea of this solidarity project is to provide the young victims of Chernobyl not only with medical assistance but also with a playful, stress-free atmosphere that encourages rehabilitation. The result is a peculiar scene: blond-haired, blue-eyed youngsters with various radiation-related illnesses running and laughing in the surf of the Caribbean island. They arrive on Air Ukraine wearing long jackets, ski hats, and boots, and anxiously begin adapting to their new surroundings, trading warm clothes for bathing suits and taking on a tanned, relaxed appearance.

In 1990, in response to an international plea for assistance for the victims of Chernobyl, two countries immediately stepped forward. Israel committed to taking in fifty Jewish victims, and Cuba offered to host an initial 10,000 children, and as many as 50,000 by the year 2000. The only cost the Cuban government would not cover was the air fare. News of the gesture confused analysts. Cuba was already suffering shortages of food, electricity, oil, and paper. Many wondered how the government could justify offering aid on such a grand scale to another country--particularly the Soviet Union, which was in the process of cutting back financial and material aid to Cuba from 85 per cent of everything the island nation received from the outside to next to nothing. The project is partly a show of solidarity toward Cuba's former benefactors, and partly a shrewd political calculation inlcuding the expectation that the gesture might be returned.

The Soviets have not been bashful about creating homes for themselves at Tarara, decorating their airy, high-ceilinged beach houses with posters from their towns and appropriating the food Cuba provides to cook tasty yogurt desserts and blintzes.

More:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_n11_v58/ai_15890043

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Photos: "Cuba's Children of Chernobyl"
http://www.chrishamiltonphotography.com/stories/cuba-contact.html

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From Disaster to Development

Cuba Marks 15 Years
Treating Chernobyl Victims

By Conner Gorry

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Cooperation between the governments of Cuba and the Ukraine during the 15 years of the Chernobyl Children’s program has fostered a unique relationship between the two public health systems. In 1998, the governments signed an accord that brought the integrative Tarará treatment model to the Ukraine, with a Cuban medical team including an endocrinologist, pediatrician, hematologist and psychologist, arriving in the Crimea.

The working partnership on the Chernobyl project could serve as a model for other countries. In 2003, the Ukrainian Parliament took the Chernobyl Children project under consideration and voted to make it an official government program, earmarking funds for its future development.

As for the Tarará facility, it has branched out from its roots as a hospital for the victims of Chernobyl and been transformed into an international post-disaster medical center, treating children from all over the world. Earthquake victims from Armenia, Brazilian children suffering from Cesium 137 poisoning and traumatized families evacuated from Montserrat when the volcano on that island rendered it almost entirely uninhabitable, all have benefited from the expertise and solidarity of the Tarará Pediatric Hospital.

http://www.medicc.org/publications/medicc_review/0505/top-story.html

8 US students graduate from free Cuban medical school; plan to practice back home

"Eight Americans who graduated from a Cuban medical school say they will put the education paid for by Fidel Castro's 'communist' government to use in hospitals back home.

"Four New Yorkers, three Californians and a Minnesotan, all from minority backgrounds, have studied in Havana since April 2001, forming the first class of American graduates from the Latin American School of Medicine."

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"Wearing white robes, the Americans were among more than 2,100 students from about 25 countries who received diplomas. More than 10,000 students now attend the Latin American School, which opened in 1999 to provide free medical training to foreign students from disadvantaged families."


http://www.pr-inside.com/print183444.htm


Damn Commies!!!

U.S. medical students graduate debt-free in Cuba
Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:51PM EDT

HAVANA (Reuters) - Eight Americans graduated on Tuesday from a Cuban medical school after six years of studies fully funded by Fidel Castro's government.

They plan to return home, take board exams for licenses to practice and provide cheap health care in poor neighborhoods.

"Cuba offered us full scholarships to study medicine here. In exchange, we commit ourselves to go back to our communities to provide health care to underserved people," said Carmen Landau, 30, of Oakland, California.

The program is part of Castro's pet project to send thousands of Cuban doctors abroad to tend to the poor in developing countries, such as Venezuela and Bolivia, and train tens of thousand of medical students from developing countries in Cuba.

More:
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2422759620070724