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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.
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.
Infomed staff gather in the Infomed lobby on the day of the worldwide challenge for health. Infomed started in 1992 as a project to interconnect the information centers and the medical libraries in Cuba, and it is today a network with national reach.
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.
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.
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". [375] As of September 2014, there are around 50,000 Cuban-trained health care workers aiding 66 nations. [376]
Aleida Guevara March [a] (born 24 November 1960) is a Cuban physician who is the eldest of four children born to Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his second wife, Aleida March.. She is a doctor based at the William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana.