• Submitted by: manso
• Society
• 09 / 24 / 2011

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2011.09.23 - 09:14:33 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. HAVANA, Cuba.-  Cuban orthopedics enjoys high prestige and its virtues in the training of professionals is acknowledged at a world level, said Mexican Professor Jaime Gutierrez, one of the participants in the international congress on orthopedics under way in this capital.  

The President of the Mexican Federation of Colleges for Orthopedics and member of the organizing committee of the 2nd Cuba-Mexico Meeting on Orthopedics, highlighted that, in spite of its economic limitations, Cuba is characterized by being a spearhead in Medicine in general.

Gutierrez, who heads the delegation participating in the 22nd International Congress of the Cuban Society of Orthopedics, praised the benefits of the Cuban RALCA external fixators, devised by Dr. and Professor Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras, which are used in several countries – including Mexico- with favorable results.

He underlined that since the first meeting to the present day, academic exchanges have taken place between the two countries, and that at the moment there are Cuban professionals in his country sharing their knowledge in the areas of knee, shoulder and spine, sub-specialties of Orthopedics.

The physician assessed exchanges between Cuba and Mexico as positive, and announced that the agreement signed last year to train interns in this specialty at the Frank Pais International Orthopedics Complex will be ratified.(ACN)