New LatAm Doctors Training in Cuba

[Mika]

New LatAm Doctors Training in Cuba

Habana, Apr 1 (Prensa Latina) Cuba kicked off a new program to train Latin American physicians after an accord signed in August by Presidents Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez in western Pinar del Rio province.

This was expressed Friday by Deputy Public Health Minister Roberto

Gonzalez, when summing up the 4th International Congress on Emergencies and Intensive Care held this week at Havana's International Conference Center.

In the presence of 325 experts from 16 countries, the official recalled that over 100,000 doctors will be trained over 10 years in a study program validated by the world's best universities.

Gonzalez stated the importance of emergencies and intensive care that has helped achieve an 80-year-old life expectancy in Cuba and infant mortality rate lower than five per each 1,000 live births.

Of course, as many Cuba "experts" know (that is - Cuba "experts" who have never been there), affordable/universal health care has to be forced on a submissive population by a brutal dictatorship, as affordable/universal health care is a sure sign of oppression. Everyone just knows that caring health care practitioners have to be forced to care for the ills of their fellow citizens.
:sarcasm:

[Judi Lynn]

1. Cuba's record of assisting in crisis situations like Haiti's victems of

gunshots in the _Bush-backed invasion of right-wing death squads, through the Dominican Republic, after training there, and receiving equipment, to overthrow Aristide, and continuing violence against his supporters, of assistance to earthquake and storm victems world-wide, of supplying low cost drugs to the poor of other countries, of bringing people to Cuba for treatment from Chernobyl, bringing poor patients from ALL over the Caribbean to Cuba for eye surgery on astounding eye problems as well as less severe ones, and Cuba's amazing groundbreaking progress in medical research have earned Cuba high recognition and respect everywhere but here!

Here, no one has ever heard about any of this! It's as if it has never happened, even though the rest of the world knew about this many years ago. Pity.

Here's a collection of photos of Cuba's Chernobyl Children I just located:

http://www.chrishamiltonphotography.com/stories/cuba-01.html

[Mika]

8. Plus, Cuba had the largest medical team in Pakistan post earthquake.

link

The Cuban gov donated 32 field hospitals to Pakistan quake hit areas and is training doctors to use them.

The US gov donated 1.

another link

[catmother]

2. i've heard that their health care and education systems are

great. many years ago i think it was 60 minutes did a piece on how cuba was treating patients with AIDS. there were isolated from others but were getting great care with healthy diets and nice surroundings -- things that might help boost the immune system. :applause:

[freethought]

9. I could be wrong about this but, as I have been told by

a respectable authority, if one has attended and graduated from Cuban medical schools, one does not have to take a medical board exam to practice in the U.S. If someone is from Central or South America, going to Cuban medical school ranks up there with going to one the finer American medical schools.

[madrchsod]

3. yes the cubans are well respected around the world

for their disaster/ emergency health care.fix them and leave with no strings attached. the cuban military is also well respected fighting force...no wonder the usa hates fidel so much

[catmother]

4. the thing i like about guys like fidel is that they were out there

fighting for their country -- not sending others to do their job. i'd like to see bush, cheney and rumsfeld go over to iraq and fight.:hide:

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Cuba and Venezuela sending educators around the world

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USA sends murderers across the globe

Wonder who will be remembered more fondly

Hmmmmmmm?

[Judi Lynn]

6. That's a tough one. May have to think about it a while. Maybe not! n/t

[Mika]

7. Here's a link on a filmaking couple about Cuba's h-c system

Photos open a "Window to Cuba"
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/index.php?ntid=78585&ntpid=0

"So what Bernie and I sort of unspokenly mutually saw was the opportunity for people here to really see both what Cuba looks like and how friendly the people are, and how effective the health care system is ... that people could really see that in a way that they couldn't through just reading about it and hearing the stories," Rumsey says.

Cuban health care: Cuba has good free universal medical care, says Micke, who is a family practice physician for UW Health on Odana Road. "I don't think they really have different things than we have here," he says. "They have common illnesses and some serious illnesses. Their general population is served by family doctors in the communities and various parts of the cities.

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Cuba has infant mortality rates similar to or lower than the U.S., Micke says, mainly because of the emphasis placed on preventive care.

Micke credits Cuba's education system with making the health care system successful. "There's very, very little illiteracy," he says. "The kids are in school. You don't see kids, for the most part, begging on the streets. They all get a good basic education, and I think people who have basic education can learn about health care - learn about how to care for themselves in better ways. I think they mesh."

Imagine that..

Cubans are forced to send their children to get a decent education, because, as so many Cuba "experts" will tell you, the Cuban people are forced to submit to a decent education and good educators have to be forced to educate future generations. Every "expert" knows that high quality education is a hallmark of brutal totalitarianism.
:sarcasm:

[robinlynne]

10. not only that, but all education at all levels,

including post graduate studies is free for anyone of any age.
iof you're 70, and decide to go to college, you can. period.

[ConcernedCanuk]

11. But then how would y'all ever end up with the likes of Junior for a leader

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with an EDUCATED electorate . . . ?

can't have that now can ya . . ?