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Cuban Graduation of Doctors |
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by Jeniffer Linton
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24 Aug 2006
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Cuba made the joint graduation of more than 1,000 national and foreign doctors in an act witnessed by notary public dedicated to president Fidel Castro, main promoter of the Latin American Medicine School (ELAM). |
562 of the graduated ones are young from different countries in the continent, that will return to their nations to work mostly in poor and rural areas.
At the present time study in the ELAM around 10 thousand originating students of 26 countries, Latin American of Africa, Asia and between which they even are black, Hispanic and indigenous of the U.S.A.
The most of the graduated ones in this occasion are from Central America; fundamentally from Guatemala and Honduras, countries that graduate every year more than 140 doctors, according to informed Jorge González, director of Girón Medicine Faculty.
Celita Celada the Guatemalan, from Quetzaltenango, said to the BBC that her passage trough the ELAM served to her to extend her cultural horizons and to become one experimented professional.
“I am giving consultation in the hospitals from third year”, assured.
This is a new opportunity that many countries can accede to the services of health that are little in the countryside and form doctors that in their country the poor man cannot study in the universities due to the expensive cost of university course.
Most of these young people are of humble origin.
Also the Guatemalan Rubén Homero confessed that “in Guatemala never I went to study in a university. I tried, but it is very difficult, is much money”. |
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