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The healthcare crisis in Matanzas, along with the precarious conditions that the Cuban people were facing, sparked massive anti-government demonstrations that were unprecedented in Cuba’s post ...
The Cuban government operates a national health system and assumes fiscal and administrative responsibility for the health care of all its citizens. [1] All healthcare in Cuba is free to Cuban residents, [2] although challenges include low salaries for doctors, poor facilities, poor provision of equipment, and the frequent absence of essential drugs.
Infant mortality was 32 per 1000 live births in Cuba in 1957. [13] In 2000–2005 it was 6.1 per 1000 in Cuba; and, for comparison, 6.8 per 1000 in the United States. [14] The 2007 infant mortality rates published by the World Health Organization in 2009 were: Cuba, 5; World, 46; High income countries, 6; United States, 6. [15]
A Cuban surgeon with scrub cap performing an open air operation in Guinea-Bissau for the PAIGC liberation movement, 1974. A 2007 academic study on Cuban internationalism surveyed the history of the program, noting its broad sweep: "Since the early 1960s, 28,422 Cuban health workers have worked in 37 Latin American countries, 31,181 in 33 African countries, and 7,986 in 24 Asian countries.
Elderly care in Cuba has long been the domain of families - with exceptions for the vulnerable - but as migration and economic crisis unravel the communist-run island's long-held social safety net ...
The broadcasts featured sport, soap operas, news, cooking shows, and comedy. Censorship was imposed following the 1952 coup by Fulgencio Batista, and again by the government of the Cuban revolution after their victory in 1959. [1] [2] [3] In 1958, Cuba was the second country in the world (after the United States) to begin color broadcasting. [4 ...
Cuba operates under the idea that healthcare is a right to all, allowing trans people access to public health care. In 1979, the Ministry of Public Health (MIN-SAP) established the Multidisciplinary Commission for Attention to Transsexuals to provide both specialized health care and social services.
By 2004, nearly 1,000 students from some 125 US medical, nursing, and public health schools had traveled to Cuba to take these two to eight-week courses—mainly placing students with family physicians throughout the island. A number of faculty members and health professionals also traveled to Cuba to research the country’s health system model.