Pinar del Río doctor saves twice a Venezuelan child
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- 01 / 05 / 2010
The first time, the eight-year-old boy was taken to Pedraza la Vieja doctor's office with an acute asthma crisis, "but we had almost no equipment to work with", the doctor recalls.
We did not have an ambulance to take him to a hospital, my husband and I managed to save him through resuscitation. It was a really tense moment, but we did it, she tells.
Fifteen days ago, Adriano had an accident, fell from a mango tree and this time we did have to take him to a hospital since he had a sever head trauma and fainted, states the young physician, graduated in 2007 in this western province.
It was the second time we saved his life. In Venezuela, each doctor's office of the program counts on a doctor after the re-boost of the government with the aid of the Cuban brigades, stressed president Hugo Chavez in a speech broadcasted December 30.
The dignitary recalled that last September, there were 358 offices without doctors and 142 thousand practices were working part time only, while now there are only 1 687 in that situation.
During the last three months -noted- 766 doctors arrived from Cuba, as well as 2 134 Venezuelan medicine students that joined the sanitary work as they conclude the career.
Adriano's experience counts as just one, although he was saved twice.
Source: www.guerrillero.cu/
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