Health in Cuba
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CUBA, 2015/08/26
For geographical reasons, neighboring Colombia is a favored gateway for Cubans fleeing Venezuela, who’s a populist government, is struggling to rein-in runaway inflation, widespread shortages of goods and services and rising social unrest.
On Saturday, the exodus reached critical mass at the same time as about 100 Cuban doctors, who deserted a medical mission in Venezuela and have been stranded in Colombia for months awaiting entry into the US, staged a turmoil to draw attention to their plight. Deteriorating conditions in Venezuela are causing increasing numbers of Cuban medical personnel working there to immigrate to the United States under a special US program launched in 2006 that expedites their applications.
Brandishing their diplomas, the Cuban health professionals congregated in a plaza in Kennedy, a working-class neighborhood built in the 1960s with funds from John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Evolution.
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CUBA, 2014/10/19
Ebola is a deadly virus, and as Cuba's president Fidel Castro outlined, it may as well be an opportunity for the US and Cuba approaching together and work jointly to fight this world threat to human health.
US National Secretary of National John Kerry on Friday spoke about Cuba as one of the nations large and small stepping up in impressive ways to make a contribution on the front lines.
People in the U.S. are seriously underserved by primary care physicians, the very doctors who are needed at the same time as it comes to combating the spread of disease. Instead, the U.S. has all kinds of high-priced specialists in everything from dermatology and liposuction to cancer specialists who could help and combat the diseases caused by our increasingly toxic environment and our chemical-laced foods.
