Sankofa, as proposed by the author, will help prevent the current miscarriage of justice.
Sankofa, as proposed by the author, will help prevent the current miscarriage of justice.
Kofi 8 years ago
Massive Graduation of Doctors in Cuba
July 29, 2013
By Elio Delgado Legón
Last week, I attended the last graduation of medical doctors to be held in Cuba this year. It was indeed a marvellous privilege to see the ove ... read full comment
Massive Graduation of Doctors in Cuba
July 29, 2013
By Elio Delgado Legón
Last week, I attended the last graduation of medical doctors to be held in Cuba this year. It was indeed a marvellous privilege to see the over one thousand new physicians.
Of the graduates, 735 were from around the world (including 58 from China and eight from the United States), students from poor families who would have been unable to afford paying for this university career in their countries.
It is indeed reassuring to know that this white-coated army, now swelling the ranks of those who look alter the health of our people and the peoples of more than 70 countries scattered across the globe, did not have to pay a cent for the high-quality scientific and humanistic education they received.
According to the figures that were made public during the ceremony, a total of 10,526 students graduated from medical school across the country this year. If we count those who have completed their studies in all health fields (dentists, psychologists, nurses, technicians, physiotherapists and others), the number goes up to 29,712. Of that total, 5,020 were foreign students who received scholarships, in view of the fact they were unable to afford these studies in their country of origin.
Elio3This may seem like a high number of students for a country as small as Cuba, but, in fact, it isn’t. The demand for medical doctors around the world is immense, and Cuba is not given to thinking exclusively and egotistically about its own needs.
Today, millions of children around the world continue to die as a result of illnesses that could be prevented with a simple vaccine, and millions of others perish due to a lack of proper medical attention.
Cuba contracts its services to those countries that have the means to pay for them. However, it also offers these same services to poor countries free of charge as a gesture of solidarity. Haiti is an important case in point.
Cuba has taken in students from small countries in the Caribbean and trained them as medical doctors, nurses and other health personnel free of charge, so that they may offer the medical services their populations require.
elio2While watching the graduation ceremony, listening to the words of gratitude of a number of foreign students, and seeing the commitment assumed by Cuban graduates, I thought that, even if the revolution that triumphed in Cuba on January 1st, 1959 had not done all of the things it can proudly point to today, even if it had limited itself to doing what it has done in the field of education and health, even then, all of our sacrifices over these long years of struggle would have been worth it.
There will always be those who look to the sun and see, rather than light, only its spots. We know our revolution isn’t perfect, as no human undertaking is perfect. But, what the Cuban revolution has done, continues to do and will do for the poor of the earth is enough for us to feel proud to be Cuban and revolutionaries.
We can add to this the almost unheard-of fact that all the young people who graduate from Cuban universities today have the guarantee of a job in the country, something which contrasts rather starkly with the situation of unemployment faced by young people nearly everywhere around the world.
Finally, to reply to those who continue to complain about Cuba’s next to inexistent racism, allow me to refer to the following fact: sixty percent of the students who participated at the graduation ceremony I attended are either black or mixed race, and the immense majority of the patients who receive medical attention from Cuban doctors in over 70 countries around the world are not white.
osé Jasán Nieves Cárdenas (Progreso Weekly)
medicos-norteamericanosHAVANA TIMES — They look Cuban, suntanned as they are. At first sight, only their unmistakable English accent betrays them, even if typical Cuban sayings are a habitual part of their conversation.
About 250 US citizens have been studying in medical schools and practicing in medical institutions in Cuba since 2000, writing with their presence one of the most revealing pages of fruitful coexistence between the United States and Cuba.
The first doctors who graduated from a program created by the US Congress’ Black Caucus and former President Fidel Castro, and later channeled through the organization Pastors for Peace have already returned to their homeland, while the island’s schools continue to train dozens of new students. Every year, more arrive.
Deep-rooted prejudices and stereotypes have been broken by the interaction. The students’ greatest lesson is the realization that they’re both alike and different.
CASSANDRA
The asphyxiating air of Havana’s Monte Street disappears as we walk up the stairs. In the living room, the young Atuey Fénix plays with his grandmother while a computer plays back old chapters of the Sesame Street series.
It’s the home of Cassandra Cusack Curbelo, a Cuban-American who was given a free scholarship to become a doctor in her mother’s homeland.
“I’m Cuban enough so as not to be an extra-terrestrial here, but American enough to be seen as a crazy lady,” she says, smiling, while she prepares vegetarian hamburgers made with crushed grains for Atuey.
Born in Hialeah but raised in Chicago, Cassandra at age 30 decided to reconsider her job as a public relations specialist in an activist group.
“I wanted to do something sustainable. The knowledge of medicine will never go out of style or become obsolete,” she says. A friend of the family helped her to get on a list of scholarship recipients issued by the Cuban Foreign Ministry to solidarity groups.
Upon arrival in Cuba in 2008, she was placed — as all Americans were — in the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) on Baracoa Beach, west of Havana. She did her practice at the Salvador Allende Hospital in Havana’s Cerro municipality which is still known by the name of the Catalonian Virgin of La Covadonga.
“I don’t like elitist medicine, and in the United States almost all doctors are white, from wealthy families, who studied at an early age. They don’t usually do workups, generally don’t listen to you, don’t look at you, don’t touch you and they charge you $100 just to show up,” Cassandra says.
“I love the way doctors here talk. My teachers have been very natural and friendly.”
“The program doesn’t force anyone to do anything,” Cassandra replies when asked if political gestures were expected in exchange for her diploma. It would be neither extraordinary nor infrequent for the health authorities to ask doctors to practice in disadvantaged areas in exchange for the free training. But Cassandra insists that it isn’t so.
“Among us, there are people who are not interested in serving anyone. They say, ‘I’ll leave [Cuba], do my residency, and go on to make money.’ But most of us, we have dreams.
“I want to set up a clinic in New Orleans with my friends. Others have thought about Detroit. We have even thought about setting up a clinic in a poor Third World nation where we can spend our vacations and help the local population a little.”
JOANNA
Those who knew her in Havana remember her for her restless spirit and vocation for service. She was an active and renowned student during her years in Cuba. Therefore, her teachers and friends were not surprised to learn that, upon entering the difficult system of medical specialties in the U.S., Joanna Mae Sauers enlisted as a volunteer to fight Ebola in Africa.
Sauers arrived at the Cooper Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, and tried to join the Cuban medical brigade that was working there.
“I was interested in working as a volunteer with the Cuban doctors, but they told me that they weren’t accepting any graduates from ELAM, given the circumstances of the epidemic. No doubt, it was their example and my experience in Cuba what inspired me to do that work,” Joanna says.
The idea of joining a Cuban brigade was not new to Joanna, a student of specialists who traveled to places like Pakistan, Angola, Venezuela or Haiti and in some cases accepted native doctors graduated in Cuba as members of their “mission.” Her closeness to Cuba was always there, through her solidarity with the people of the island.
“I heard about the program through a friend and applied for the scholarship through Pastors for Peace,” she says. “There are some basic requirements for admission, such as a payment for the application, an interview and an orientation session.
“First, you must be approved by the organization and then accepted into the program by the school. What they seek primarily are applicants who have a proven dedication to serve the needy.
“Most of the people I knew in the States were surprised when they heard that I was going to Cuba to study. They didn’t know that was possible and were amazed when they learned that the program is a totally free scholarship guaranteed by the Cuban government. They could hardly believe that such an opportunity existed.”
Sauers lived on the ELAM campus from her first to third year but later rented a room near the Covadonga Hospital. Learning the Cuban culture and the values of other friends from Africa, South America and the Caribbean was to her as important an education as the medical training.
“There was nothing better than visiting my friends in the provinces and sharing with them a good home-cooked meal, especially a dish of yucca with mojo, congri rice, fried plantains, salad and roasted pork. My mouth waters just thinking about it!” she says.
Hinges for normalization
Like their compatriots who have graduated or are about to graduate, Cassandra and Joanna are small examples of interaction between two countries with a longtime ideological confrontation. They have lived through coexistence without trauma and demonstrate that it is possible to maintain relations of mutual benefit.
The closed medical system in the U.S. — described by many as endogamous and elitist — has begun to accept graduates from Cuba, as reported by Joanna, one of the most recent 13 U.S. students at ELAM who passed the tests to practice medical specialties in the States.
“To me, it wasn’t particularly difficult to get my residency in the United States,” Joanna says. “I had to get through the USMLE [U.S. Medical License Examination] tests, which require rigorous knowledge. I did all I could to get as much clinical experience in the U.S. as I got in Cuba. That meant spending much of my summer vacations doing observations and clinical rotations in the U.S.
“Many programs of competitive specialties were interested in my application, because the ELAM is renowned through the graduates who returned before I did, and those who know about us and the Cuban medical system value our training quite a lot.”
That positive perception is noticed even in the state of Florida, says Cassandra, who says she has heard of hospitals interested in hiring doctors like her. “I know that Baptist Hospital and Jackson Hospital in Miami are,” she says.
Most of the Americans return home after their sixth year. Since the rapprochement of December 2014 they hope that the US will soon have an embassy in Havana but unsure of the possibility.
“As an American, I’m very cynical and say that as long as nothing is on paper nothing is happening. People can talk all they want but it may only be words,” says Cassandra. “[Cuba] is virgin land in the Caribbean and the wolves are drooling to come in.”
“I think the rapprochement is useful for both countries,” Joanna sums up. “Cuba is an example to the world in terms of top-level medical care and training. The US and much of the rest of the world have a desperate need for primary-care physicians. As graduates of this program, we can provide health services for the needy and share our experience with the rest of the world.”
From this experience a new type of doctor emerges — and a new source of interaction.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
"Cuban Doctors at the Forefront of Ebola Battle in Africa"
With risks growing that Ebola could flare on foreign shores, the U.S. is calling for nations to dispatch doctors and nurses to West Africa, where thousands of live ... read full comment
"Cuban Doctors at the Forefront of Ebola Battle in Africa"
With risks growing that Ebola could flare on foreign shores, the U.S. is calling for nations to dispatch doctors and nurses to West Africa, where thousands of lives are on the line. Few have heeded the call, but one country has responded in strength: Cuba.
In the weeks since U.S. President Barack Obama sent the first of nearly 4,000 troops to West Africa, the struggle to quell Ebola has created odd bedfellows. Perhaps none is quite so odd as the sight of Cuban doctors joining forces with the U.S. military to combat Ebola in West Africa. Cuba has long had an antagonistic relationship with its northern neighbor, the U.S.
Aspiring global heavyweights China, India and Russia have done plenty of business in Africa, but their contributions to fighting the Ebola epidemic have been underwhelming thus far. And nations with some of the world’s most advanced health-care systems have come too late with too little to the crisis, said leaders from Ebola-affected countries.
On Thursday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for “at least a 20-fold surge in assistance” that includes “trained medical personnel.”
“The international response was slow,” said Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. On Thursday, she pleaded for more medical personnel, speaking from the capital Monrovia to a World Bank Ebola conference in Washington. “More than ever, we need qualified and dedicated staff to join the fight against Ebola.”
Cuba has answered that call. It has sent 165 health workers to hard-hit Sierra Leone, a disproportionately large number for a tiny island nation of 11 million people. They join cadres of medical workers in West Africa from several nations who are under the auspices of aid groups. Doctors Without Borders says it has about 250 international staff in the region and nearly 3,000 working on Ebola there overall.
Cuba has long played an outsize role in Africa, sending troops to battle the South African military out of Angola, and training guerrillas who joined Nelson Mandela’s armed struggle against apartheid. In the early 1960s, Che Guevara traveled to try to foment revolt in the east of newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo—only to find himself in the company of men he later judged more interested in plunder than global socialism.
“We can’t liberate by ourselves a country that does not want to fight,” he wrote back in a dispirited letter to Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Instead, the Argentine-born physician-turned-revolutionary suggested Cuba send something else: doctors. Since then, Cuba has sent tens of thousands of health workers to foreign nations. The country sent 2,500 health workers to Pakistan after its 2005 earthquake, and another 1,500 to Haiti after its 2010 earthquake, said Jorge Delgado Bustillo, head of the Cuban Medical Brigade to Sierra Leone.
By comparison, the 165 medics here represent a cautious response.
“We work on malaria, cholera, dengue, a disaster situation, floods in Venezuela, floods in Guatemala, floods in Belize,” Mr. Bustillo said. “But Ebola? It’s a first time for the Cubans.”
In a speech this month, Mr. Castro appeared to be recalling Cuba’s military exploits ahead of the doctors deployment to Sierra Leone. He called them “an army of white coats,” and vowed: “Honor and glory to our valiant fighters for health and life!” according to the excerpts from the speech that appeared in the island’s state-owned Granma newspaper.
The Cubans play down any rivalry with the Americans. “Against Ebola, we can work with anyone,” said Mr. Bustillo. “The United States? Yes, we can.”
On Wednesday, the Cuban flag stretched across an entire wall in a conference center here, as doctors squirmed in their seats, waiting more than an hour for Sierra Leone’s government to officially welcome them. An Australian World Health Organization official responsible for training them on Ebola care watched in concern as the Cubans swapped hand-clasps, pats on backs and other potentially hazardous displays of physical affection. Public-health officials warn Ebola can spread on contact, with the virus carried in bodily fluids like sweat.
“They’re a very cuddly people,” said Katrina Roper, a technical officer with the U.N. agency. “Tomorrow will be me explaining why they have to stop shaking hands and sharing things.”
Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday exhorted more nations to send health-care workers and other forms of assistance. “We need people to step up now,” he said.
That the U.S. finds itself reliant on a Cold War rival underscores the lopsided humanitarian response to the Ebola epidemic. The U.S. is the biggest donor nation, having pledged to send nearly 4,000 troops and nearly $400 million in other aid. It is sending 65 U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers to staff an Ebola ward for health-care providers in Liberia. More than 2,600 health volunteers have signed up on a government website for possible deployment with aid organizations.
Africa’s biggest trading partner, China, has said it would provide $1 million in cash, $2 million in food and specialists each to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The Asian giant is also sending 170 medical workers to Liberia, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. Currently, 58 Chinese are staffing an Ebola-treatment ward and blood-testing lab off the side of a Chinese-built clinic. Of these, 35 are drivers, handymen and chefs, said Guo Tongshing, the clinic’s chief doctor.
India, with deep trade links and air connections to West Africa, recently pledged to contribute $12.5 million, but no medical personnel. Brazil, which has spent a decade wooing African nations across the Atlantic, has contributed about $413,000.
Russia, which has also sought to rekindle Cold War allies here, sent a team of eight virologists to Guinea, once a Soviet outpost, and protective clothing.
South Africa—a country eager to cement its leadership role on the continent—has sent a mobile lab to Sierra Leone. There is no record of any monetary contribution from the country.
African health workers are part of the crisis response, though. The African Union has sent about 75 medical workers, and Uganda, which has extensive experience with Ebola, has sent 15.
Meanwhile, Japan, the world’s third-richest economy after the U.S. and China, is sending $40 million to the cause, but no personnel. Toyota Motor Corp. plans to donate cars to help transport patients.
Even France, the European country with the most military bases in Africa, has been slow to send in army medics. The former colonial power will construct and operate a 50-bed clinic in Guinea, staffed with 15 French medics at a given time, in addition to Red Cross volunteers, the state agency managing medical reservists said.
The U.K. is sending in another 750 personnel to help build the dozens of clinics needed in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The clinics are required to isolate patients from their family members and break the viral chain of transmission. But it isn’t clear who will staff those clinics.
Liberia alone needs about 10,000 qualified health-care workers, and a similar number are needed in Sierra Leone, the U.S. government has said. So far, the largest single medical brigade is from Cuba in Sierra Leone.
“Cuba is the only one that I know is responding with human resources in terms of health doctors and nurses,” said Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the chairwoman for the African Union and South African President Jacob Zuma’s ex-wife.
It won’t be enough, said Abdulai Baratay, a spokesman for Sierra Leone’s government: “Even though we appreciate the Cubans…we still think that with the rate at which the virus is spreading, we need more people on the ground.”
Governments, China’s included, complain they simply don’t have enough experience with Ebola to send in large numbers: “This is a big challenge for our scientists,” said Qian Jun, team leader for the China Center for Disease Control Mobile Laboratory Team in Sierra Leone.
Indeed, there was no boot- or hand-washing station at the entrance of China’s Ebola ward in Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown, a critical safety measure. Instead, there was a family of cats living in the doorway, one sleeping on the steps.
“Every day our doctors, nurses, they come here on time,” said Dr. Guo, the head of the clinic. “But sometimes, the Sierra Leoneans, they don’t come.”
This is the void Cuba is filling. While consultants from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are lodged in Radisson Blu resort,—at more than $200 a night—the 165 Cuban medics are living three to a room in one of Freetown’s budget hotels. The hotel’s toilets are broken. Flies buzz around soiled tablecloths where the Cubans eat in cafeteria-style shifts.
“It’s not Sierra Leone that needs us,” said Yosvany Vera, a 36-year-old doctor working his way through a greasy plate of rice. “The world needs us.”
Kofi 8 years ago
Well Cameron, socialism is not all doom and gloom as you guys perceive it.Castro makes more money by exporting doctors than natural resource rich DR Congo.Brace yourself for the uncomfortable truth that socialism can be a fo ... read full comment
Well Cameron, socialism is not all doom and gloom as you guys perceive it.Castro makes more money by exporting doctors than natural resource rich DR Congo.Brace yourself for the uncomfortable truth that socialism can be a force for good.You have been my idol for decades but you have really pissed me off with your contempt for Cuba.
JUN 8, 2015 @ 9:34 PM 3,530 VIEWS
Cuba's Most Valuable Export: Its Healthcare Expertise
Bill Frist ,
I cover global and domestic health care and health care reform.
When you think of Cuban exports, you might think of sugar, or perhaps its famously sought-after cigars. But one of the nation’s most profitable exports is actually its own healthcare professionals.
The Cuban government reportedly earns $8 billion a year in revenues from professional services carried out by its doctors and nurses, with some 37,000 Cuban nationals currently working in 77 countries. The socialist regime allows the government to collect a portion of the incomes earned by Cuban workers abroad.
For example, in 2013 Cuba inked a deal with the Brazilian Health Ministry to send 4,000 Cuban doctors to underserved regions of Brazil by the end of the year – worth as much as $270 million a year to the Castro government. By the end of 2014, Brazil’s Mais Medicos program, meaning “More Doctors,” had brought in 14,462 health professionals – 11,429 of which came from Cuba.
Over the past 50 years, Cuba consistently used the export of its doctors as a powerful and far-reaching tool of health diplomacy. The island nation has built good will and improved its global standing with emerging countries around the world during its years of isolation. It sent its first doctors overseas as far back as 1963, and to date has sent physicians to over 100 countries.
In my travels doing medical mission work to underserved regions in over a dozen African nations, the most common nonindigenous health personnel I run across are doctors and nurses from Cuba offering frontline primary and emergency care. They serve and cure, building trust in Cuba’s name globally.
Why is the medical expertise of this impoverished nation in demand? And why is it home to a population whose life expectancies rival those of much richer countries? Researchers have called this phenomenon the Cuban Health Paradox.
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francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Kofi,
People like Cameron enjoy the socialist benefits of Britain and say something else with another mouth. Shameless hypocrites!
Thanks.
Kofi,
People like Cameron enjoy the socialist benefits of Britain and say something else with another mouth. Shameless hypocrites!
Thanks.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
"Cuba Offers Poor Medical Students a Free Ride"
HAVANA, Cuba | In an old naval academy on Havana’s western shore, thousands of low-income students from around the world — including 100 from the United States — are ... read full comment
"Cuba Offers Poor Medical Students a Free Ride"
HAVANA, Cuba | In an old naval academy on Havana’s western shore, thousands of low-income students from around the world — including 100 from the United States — are getting a free medical education thanks the Cuban government.
The Latin American Medical School, “ELAM” in Spanish, was conceived by former President Fidel Castro following Hurricanes George and Mitch, which devastated parts of Central America and the Caribbean in 1998. After sending 1,000 doctors to hard-hit communities, Cuba decided to offer long-term help by providing medical training to students in those countries. Soon, thousands were accepted from around the world.
Students must pass an entry test, and have at least a high-school diploma and a solid academic record. Preference is given to low-income applicants. In return for receiving a free medical education, students make a non-binding pledge to practice medicine in underserved communities.
The Cuban government foots the bill for each student — around $10,000 to $15,000 a year — according to the school’s Vice Rector Maritza Gonzalez Bravo.
Gonzalez says hundreds of thousands of doctors are urgently needed around the world, and the goal is to increase those ranks as quickly as possible.
“In any country, regardless of its wealth, if we know that its people are in need of health services, and there are young who feel the need to change the reality in their hometowns, we open our arms to them, to train them so they can change the situations in their communities,” said Gonzalez.
Some 50 U.S. students have graduated from ELAM. Those graduates must pass the same licensing exams as U.S. medical students and apply for residency programs at American hospitals. But unlike in the United States, students at ELAM spend up to a year learning Spanish, Cuban history and culture, and then dive into a curriculum that is focused on preventative health. And because many medical supplies, like advanced diagnostic equipment, are in short supply, students learn medicine the old-fashioned way: listening closely to a stethoscope, relying on their hands to feel for abnormalities.
The school, like most things in Cuba, is not without controversy. Some critics say the school is simply a propaganda tool for the Castro government. But during the NewsHour’s visit, we spoke with a number of students who seemed genuinely grateful to the Cuban government and eager to help out their communities after graduation.
sol.jpgFirst-year student Anniver Maegaasia, 22, is from the Solomon Islands. When asked why she was studying medicine in Cuba, Maegaasia replied, “In my country, there is no medical school.”
She says most people in the Solomon Islands are very poor, including her own family, so she jumped at the opportunity to get a free medical education in Cuba.
Her own family’s lack of access to quality medical care prompted her to become a doctor. Her mother is battling cancer and her younger sister died of the disease at age 13.
“Her lab tests were sent to Australia and it took months to get the results back,” explained Maegaasia. “In Cuba, one doctor looks after the whole family. Back home, the government doesn’t care as much about health care. Here it is about prevention.”
Maegaasia says the campus environment at ELAM is fairly strict, but she appreciates being able to focus on her studies without “distractions” such as the Internet or cell phones.
emily.jpgEmily Brown, 25, says she came to Cuba so she can give back in her home state of Pennsylvania.
“This school is going to allow me to become the doctor I want to be,” said Brown. “I won’t be paying back a huge debt when I graduate, so I’ll be able to work at a free clinic or volunteer in communities that need me most.”
tucker.jpgNew Orleans native Tia Tucker, 28, says her training in a resource-poor country like Cuba will help her when she starts a practice in rural Louisiana. “We did a workshop in New Orleans this summer and people were psyched about what we are learning here. They said, ‘Yeah, I want to live in a community where the doctor can come to my house.'”
In addition to free tuition, pretty much everything the students need at school is given to them: lab coats, shoes, text books and a bag of toiletries once a month. They also get a 100 pesos monthly stipend, about $4, which they say is enough to buy snacks and to get around the city. But students admit the conditions at the school are not luxurious.
cas.jpgCassandra Curbelo, from Miami, is one of the older students on campus at age 32. “For a lot of us who are here, versus what your typical U.S. med student looks like, we don’t have a lot of perks at home,” she explained. “But if you live in a building that is too hot during the summer and too cold during the winter, then you are going to understand better what your patients’ lives are like.”
rkt 8 years ago
So just imagine lazy prosecution officers AND/OR A GANG WITH AN AGENDA TO SUBVERT JUSTICE in Ghana being able to say, “Let’s send him to this or that court BECAUSE THE JUDGE THERE IS ONE OF US!
So just imagine lazy prosecution officers AND/OR A GANG WITH AN AGENDA TO SUBVERT JUSTICE in Ghana being able to say, “Let’s send him to this or that court BECAUSE THE JUDGE THERE IS ONE OF US!
Sankofa, as proposed by the author, will help prevent the current miscarriage of justice.
Massive Graduation of Doctors in Cuba
July 29, 2013
By Elio Delgado Legón
Last week, I attended the last graduation of medical doctors to be held in Cuba this year. It was indeed a marvellous privilege to see the ove ...
read full comment
"Cuban Doctors at the Forefront of Ebola Battle in Africa"
With risks growing that Ebola could flare on foreign shores, the U.S. is calling for nations to dispatch doctors and nurses to West Africa, where thousands of live ...
read full comment
Well Cameron, socialism is not all doom and gloom as you guys perceive it.Castro makes more money by exporting doctors than natural resource rich DR Congo.Brace yourself for the uncomfortable truth that socialism can be a fo ...
read full comment
Kofi,
People like Cameron enjoy the socialist benefits of Britain and say something else with another mouth. Shameless hypocrites!
Thanks.
"Cuba Offers Poor Medical Students a Free Ride"
HAVANA, Cuba | In an old naval academy on Havana’s western shore, thousands of low-income students from around the world — including 100 from the United States — are ...
read full comment
So just imagine lazy prosecution officers AND/OR A GANG WITH AN AGENDA TO SUBVERT JUSTICE in Ghana being able to say, “Let’s send him to this or that court BECAUSE THE JUDGE THERE IS ONE OF US!