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• 02 / 26 / 2010

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Cuba's medical collaboration has reached 77 countries so far, with about 38,000 doctors, said authorities of that sector, considered one of the greatest achievements of the Revolution.

"When Fidel Castro conceived training thousands of doctors, he thought about doing justice, not only to the Cuban people, but also to all the countries in the world, Cuban Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer said."

Juventud Rebelde newspaper quoted the minister in his speech at an annual meeting of this sector, as saying that cooperation is one of the main greatest qualities of the revolutionary process started on January 1, 1959.

Cuba's Vice Health Minister Marcia Cobas announced that re-assessment of 338,000 cases of mentally or physically disabled people will begin in over 3,600 community councils and 325 municipalities in Venezuela on March 15.

Cuban doctors have assessed 471,701 differently abled people in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador, and is extending now this practice to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Regarding the Haitian people, he said that those who lost an arm, foot, leg or a hand, during the January 12 earthquake, would be assisted in their own country, she explained.

She also said that to make this viable, they will create two prosthesis laboratories and 30 rehabilitation wards, 16 of which are already working in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, and in the rest of that devastated nation.

Source: PL