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We help maintain Cuba’s illegal but necessary grassroots healthcare network | Opinion
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.
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.
Health in Cuba refers to the overall health of the population of Cuba. Like the rest of the Cuban economy , Cuban medical care suffered following the end of Soviet subsidies in 1991; the stepping up of the US embargo against Cuba at this time also had an effect.
According to the World Health Organization, Cuba is "known the world over for its ability to train excellent doctors and nurses who can then go out to help other countries in need". [374] As of September 2014, there are around 50,000 Cuban-trained health care workers aiding 66 nations. [375]
The network started as an initiative of the Medical Sciences Information National Center, that was founded in 1965 to take care of the information needs of doctors and other health workers. A characteristic of the project has been the use of the information and communication technologies with a social vision and with the developments of local ...
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.
Medical and health organizations based in Cuba (4 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Healthcare in Cuba" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.