Argentines who earned medical degrees in Cuba open doctor’s office

[IndianaGreen]

The Latin American School of Medicine has
trained more than 7,500 young people from
45 countries as doctors

Havana. December 29, 2009

Argentines who earned medical degrees in Cuba open doctor’s office

ARGENTINE doctors who graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Havana opened Casa Tatu, a doctor’s office for attending to residents of an extremely poor neighborhood in Greater Buenos Aires, on December 28.

Teresa Singer, general secretary of Project Tatu, thanked the neighbors who built the office on the roof of a home and explained that their dream takes its name from the nom de guerre of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna — better known as Che — when he was fighting in the African liberation struggle.

Singer highlighted Cuba’s generous gesture of training young people like her from very poor neighborhoods; 2,000 graduate every year from ELAM, coming from poor communities all over the world, sharing everything without asking for anything in return.

"Today we dedicate the opening of this office for family medicine to Argentine/Cuban doctor Ernesto Che Guevara; to the Cuban people; to Fidel Castro Ruz, and of course, to all of you compañeros," the young doctor said to enthusiastic applause from the crowd.

Project Tatu, an initiative that emerged in 2001 after young people went to Cuba to study, was implemented in 2007 in poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, even before the students completed their studies, because they believed they did not have the right to wait, according to an article published on the Cubadebate website.

Since then, they have opened 14 medical posts, oriented chiefly toward children.

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/diciembre/mar29/Argentines.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. But are they spying on Argentina and reporting back to Fidel?

Some idiot Freeper asked that here the other day about Cuban doctors in Bolivia. The stupidity of the question blew my mind (spying on Bolivia?), but then I get most of my news from DU, don't have TV and am not exposed to the disease of crappo-fascist 'news' monopolies on a regular basis, so I tend not to grasp the extent to which they have been shrinking our people's brains.

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Not many Americans know that Che Guevara was a medical doctor, and that it was his experience as a medical doctor--seeing the misery of the poor dying of preventable illnesses and neglect--that radicalized him. If only more doctors and other medical professionals would take their medical oaths seriously, and stop being bought-and-paid-for, money-grubbing exploiters, and help beat down the insurance vultures and the pharmaceutical vultures, and help restore medicine as "a corporal work of mercy," we'd have a much better world. Cuban medical ethics and their extraordinarily superior medical system--including their absolutely free training of doctors (who don't emerge from their system in crippling financial debt, and can thus make decisions solely based on the needs of the sick)--should be exported everywhere. In fact, we have multi-millions of people here with no health care, who could use Cuba's help.

[Vincardog]

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[EFerrari]

3. I wonder if one can also study couselling psych in Cuba.

I still can't find a program I can afford here.