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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-10-09 08:19 PM
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Chávez receives advance brigade of Cuban doctors
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Chávez receives advance brigade of Cuban doctors

CARACAS, October 8.— Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez today received the new advance brigade of Cuban doctors, who arrived in the country to boost the Barrio Adentro Mission healthcare program that is being implemented by the Bolivarian government.

Telesur reported that the incorporation of these new Cuban doctors will advance work in the 7,000 primary healthcare centers throughout Venezuela, given that approximately 2,000 of these had no permanent doctor, as the Venezuelan president stated in September.

On the other hand, Prensa Latina cited Chávez as having affirmed that 24,811 Venezuelans are studying community medicine in 318 of the country’s 335 municipalities.

This figure is in excess of the 22,059 students matriculated in seven-year programs at university medical schools in the nation, he stated during an event marking the Day of the Community Doctor.

Meanwhile, Rogelio Polanco, the Cuban ambassador in Venezuela, said that the fact that Venezuela is training its physicians in the community will promote doctors with a commitment to their people. He described the experiment, in which the Cuban doctors are collaborating as instructors, as unprecedented in the history of humanity

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/octubre/vier9/Chavez-receives.html
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