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"Cuban-Venezuelan Solidarity to Save Thousands of Lives in Haiti
Thousands of Haitians anxiously await the opening of the first three of ten Comprehensive Diagnosis Health Centers (CDI) built by Cuba and Venezuela in this impoverished nation
2009-05-19 | 21:36:07 EST
HAVANA, Cuba, May 19 (acn) Thousands of Haitians anxiously await the opening of the first three of ten Comprehensive Diagnosis Health Centers (CDI) built by Cuba and Venezuela in this impoverished nation.
These first three modern hospitals will benefit residents in Artibonite, Les Cayes and Nippes, in the interior of Haiti, offering X Rays, ultrasound, endoscopy, electrocardiography, surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, vital support, intensive care, hospitalization, clinical laboratory, and emergency rooms, the Granma newspaper reported.
Most of these services will be available for the first time to residents, says Dr. Mercedes Maturell, who will direct the centers that will attend to some 95,000 residents in Les Cayes.
The coordinador of these health centers, Dr. Elio Ruslán Ravelo, said that 44 Haitians will graduate in Cuba in September 2009 (22 in Anaesthesia and 22 in Intensive Care) and come to work in these new centers.
Ruslán Ravelo said that the new graduates will work alongside Cuban physicians in charge of paediatrics, surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, to gain the experience to become specialists."
http://www.juventudrebelde.co.cu/international/2009-05-19/cuban-venezuelan-solidarity-to-save-thousands-of-lives-in-haiti/