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elleng

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Sat Nov 26, 2016, 03:18 AM

Nov 2016

A health system that serves the people of the Third World

Cuban expertise in the field of health also benefits the people of the Third World. Indeed, since 1963, Cuba has sent doctors and other health workers throughout the Third World to treat the poor. Currently, nearly 30,000 Cuban medical staff are working in over 60 countries around the world. [7]

The iconic example of this solidarity with the poorest of the earth is Operation Miracle, a major vision restoration program launched in 2004 by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez. This humanitarian campaign, implemented at the continental level under the aegis of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), operates without charge on the Latin American poor who suffer from cataracts and other eye diseases [8].>>>

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/salim-lamrani/cubas-health-care-system-_b_5649968.html

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Cubas Health Care System: a Model for the World [View all] elleng Nov 2016 OP

Yes and no. It's a little to Spartan for first world people Warpy Nov 2016 #1

Even more embarrassing ... LenaBaby61 Nov 2016 #2

AND elleng Nov 2016 #3

But if you rustle down in the weeds Igel Nov 2016 #10

But if you rustle down in the weeds ... LenaBaby61 Nov 2016 #12

Your info about beds and pillows is from the mid 90s during the austere special period. Mika Nov 2016 #4

In your other trips there it seems likely people you have known for years Judi Lynn Nov 2016 #17

From the author of: "Fidel Castro: Hero of the dispossessed" oberliner Nov 2016 #5

It is their political system that is an embarrassment hack89 Nov 2016 #6

We supposedly have awoke_in_2003 Nov 2016 #7

Ok. hack89 Nov 2016 #8

You asked why they didn't awoke_in_2003 Nov 2016 #13

Cubans get no choice what so ever. hack89 Nov 2016 #14

I am not saying their way is good awoke_in_2003 Nov 2016 #15

Our system is orders of magnitudes greater. hack89 Nov 2016 #16

We can't even get physical proof of who we voted for. LenaBaby61 Nov 2016 #11

That's just Sicko! kebob Nov 2016 #9

Cuba Leads the World in Lowest Patient per Doctor Ratio; How do they do it? Judi Lynn Nov 2016 #18

THANKS, Judi Lynn. elleng Nov 2016 #19

Absolutely. Beyond that, I really hate all this "dictator" rhetoric about Castro. He did some ancianita Nov 2016 #20