780 Cuban-Trained Bolivian Doctors Return Home

[Catherina]

780 Cuban-Trained Bolivian Doctors Return Home



Hundreds of Cuban-trained Bolivian doctors will return to Bolivia as of this weekend to start offering medical attention in their country’s rural areas.

Bolivian director of health services, Ruben Colque said that 780 new physicians, who graduated at the Havana-based Latin American School of Medicine are returning home to first offer an initial land compulsory service in rural areas before they get to their final places of work. The preliminary stage, known as social service, will be coordinated with regional health offices in different departments, Colque said.

A specialization program

Meanwhile, the Health Ministry is drawing up a specialization program for the new doctors, given the country’s need of specialists in areas such as anesthesiology, pediatric surgery, nephrology and geriatrics, PL news agency reported from La Paz.

Before this graduation took place, over 3,800 Bolivian doctors concluded their studies in Cuba, while another 2 thousand are currently taking medical courses on the island. Overall this year, 855 Bolivians have graduated as medical doctors, 780 of whom studied at ELAM.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Beautiful. Sharing their medical knowledge with young Bolivian medical students

who were unable to afford their medical base themselves.

Absolutely righteous to ask the graduating doctors to serve an agreed-upon term working for free with the poor of their country in return for their free education, as they do with young U.S. American medical student who will be returning to urban centers, or reservations, or working among migrant workers, miners, etc., etc.

What is honorable, and decent has been twisted by right-wing dirtballs into being termed "slavery" by these ####-slingers, and truth-mangling a-holes.

It works out perfectly, and everyone benefits. Couldn't be fairer, and it gives people who would otherwise be wasted, the chance they want and need to spend their lives doing work to heal the human race appearing in their own countries.

A system built on honor, compassion, and hope. EVERYONE profits from that.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Very impressive! Thanks for the post!

Wouldn't it be wonderful if the U.S. government said, "Wait a minute! Cuba is doing THIS thing RIGHT--educating doctors--and we should praise it and learn from it."

Ain't it sad that that we'll never hear this, and the reasons that we won't (i.e., Miami mafia running U.S. policy on Cuba; insurance corporations running 'health care' here).

Sad, sad.

I wish that I could love my country and still love justice. --Albert Camus

[limpyhobbler]

3. very cool.

I like it.