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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.
The people obtain the rest of their food from government stores (Tiendas), free market stores and cooperatives, barter, their own gardens, and the black market. [17] According to the Pan American Health Organization, daily caloric intake per person in various places in 2003 were as follows (unit is kilocalories): Cuba, 3,286; America, 3,205;
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 ...
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Cuba has a universal health care system which provides free medical treatment to all Cuban citizens, [25] [26] although challenges include low salaries for doctors, poor facilities, poor provision of equipment, and the frequent absence of essential drugs.
In 1976, Cuba's healthcare program was enshrined in Article 50 of the revised constitution which states, "Everyone has the right to health protection and care". Healthcare in Cuba is also free, [ 82 ] although challenges include low salaries for doctors, poor facilities, poor provision of equipment, and the frequent absence of essential drugs.