Wellington, Jan 22 (Prensa Latina) New Zealand's media highlighted on Friday the Cuban aid to Haiti, after recalling that the solidarity of the Cuban people and government with the Caribbean nation dates a long way back.
When the quake shook the country, 400 Cuban health workers were in Haiti, providing free health care to one of the world's poorest populations, according to Scoop online.
Another 69 Cuban specialists joined them the day after the quake, it stressed.
Until January 20, the Cuban medical brigade had provided assistance to 14,551 patients and practiced 1,252 surgeries in 21 health centers, fitted out in Port au Prince and other areas, said Scoop, reproducing a note by the Cuban embassy in Wellington.
In addition, 400 Haitians studying medicine in Cuba have joined the contingent to help their countrymen.
Cuba currently has 40,000 doctors, nurses, and health technicians in nearly 70 countries, including Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Tuvalu.
Editorial: All of the information above is true, and you can look it up. If socialist Cuban medical care is so bad, as right-wingers like to say, then how do you explain all of the above? The answer is simple. Conservatives are liars, and socialized medicine really is a good thing.
Friday, January 22, 2010
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