Cuba Will Increase Medical Assistance to Chile

[Mika]

Cuba Will Increase Medical Assistance to Chile
http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2010/0306cubaaumentara.htm

HAVANA, Cuba, March 6 (acn) Cuba will send more medical resources to Chile within the next hours at the request of authorities from the South American nation to assist victims of the devastating earthquake that hit Chile last week.

The announcement was made by Elis Alberto Gonzalez Polanco, with the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, during the closing session of the 12th International Meeting of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems that ended Friday in Havana.

Last Tuesday, a Cuban medical brigade comprised of 11 doctors, six nurses, four technicians and other health professionals, traveled to Chile to attend to victims of the earthquake.

“Coincidently, this takes place 50 years after Cuba, for the first time, lent a helping hand to a nation in need. It was on May 21, 1960, when a group of Cuban health professionals traveled to Chile after an earthquake hit Valdivia,” Gonzalez Polanco recalled.

“Since then, Cuba has provided this kind of assistance on nearly 40 occasions during natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, epidemics and volcanic eruptions,” he added.

The official stressed that Cuba’s aid has gone beyond these emergency situations and he explained that the island has contributed to establishing hospital, primary and specialized assistance in nearly 100 countries.

Gonzalez Polanco stated that, according to conservative estimates, Cuban health specialists have saved more than two million lives and almost 150,000 doctors, nurses, paramedics and other health personnel have made their contribution in nearly 100 countries around the world. Currently, almost 39,000 health professionals work abroad and this figure will soon increase with Chile.

He also highlighted the training of thousands of youths from 28 countries of Asia, Latin America and Africa at Havana’s Latin American School of Medicine.

Viva the good people of Cuba!

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Cuba's doctors are well known throughout the rest of the world, everywhere but here!

They have accomplished miracles at home, as well.

Thanks, Mika.

[Mika]

2. Unlike the US disaster relief, no military.

From Cuba: just doctors and care givers (their real mission?... secretly spreading infectious communism).

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[protocol rv]

3. I don't think the US needs Cuban doctors

What the US needs is the common sense to create a national health insurance service, which can be accomplished very easily by graduallly extending Medicare to all legal residents in the USA.

[Peace Patriot]

4. You don't seem to understand that U.S. gov't/corporate hatred of Cuba is in part based on

their determination to prevent the people of the U.S. from learning about Cuba's fabulous, universal, FREE medical care system. As with the Honduran coup general who said that, by their coup, they were "preventing communism from Venezuela reaching the United States," the U.S. corporate rulers are determined to prevent ANY good socialist ideas from "reaching the United States," including--in addition to universal, FREE medical care--universal FREE education through college, use of a country's resources to benefit the people who live there, and the universal human rights to food, water, housing, decent wages and benefits, literacy and education, medical care and living in a decent society that cares for all of its members and in which the rich/poor discrepancy does not reach the obscene levels that it has reached in the U.S.

Our Corporate Rulers HATE these ideas, because they limit the obscene profits of the rich and powerful. And as long as they rule here, we will NEVER see a cessation of hostility to the governments of Cuba and Venezuela--and others working on social justice--just as we will NEVER see Medicare for all.

But then, I wouldn't expect someone who makes racist comments--as you have done*--to grasp the most elemental truths about our corporate rulers' hatred of Cuba and all leftist governments. And, isn't it interesting--considering your racist remark against "Indians"--that your health care proposal would be limited to "all legal residents in the USA," so that some poverty-stricken brown "illegal" who falls seriously ill, or is seriously hurt in an accident, or is giving birth, will be charged maximum costs for medical care, or just left to die on the street?

Typical rightwing comment, from a typical racist--not to mention an oil corporation apologist!

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*Comment 36, here...

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