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200 US medical students graduate in Cuba
In Cuba, 200 American students graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine, according to Cuba’s social representative to the UN, Ana Silvia Rodríguez Abascal, published on Twitter on Wednesday.
According to the diplomat, the students mainly belong to marginalized minorities and low-income families. He also noted that these doctors, for the most part, decided to work in their vulnerable communities.
In addition, several students from the school joined the fight against Covid-19 inside the Caribbean island. Among his jobs was support for active research, which goes through neighborhoods looking for people who could be the focus of contagion of the pandemic.
Congratulations to the new #WE #ELAM graduates !!!. More than 200 students from the United States, mainly from marginalized minorities and low-income families, have graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine of Cuba (ELAM). They decided to work in their marginalized communities pic.twitter.com/ym1Fn8cwIm
– Ana Silvia Rodríguez Abascal (@DPRCubaOnu) July 29, 2020
On the other hand, the ambassador of the European Union (EU) in Cuba, Alberto Navarro, said that the island is today giving an example of solidarity against the Covid-19 pandemic, sending medical missions abroad.
He emphasized that the European bloc explores “the possibility of creating a school like ELAM for Africa, where there is also much need”, with Cuban ways of doing things and European funds.
ELAM American students have also held a virtual graduation meeting. Additionally, they joined the fight against the new coronavirus in vulnerable communities like the New York Bronx.
They also joined the racial struggles in the United States and the Black Lives Matter movement on the premise of “taking funds away from the police, financing the community, financing public health.”
More doctors for the world trained in Cuba: another contribution against COVID-19
The graduation this week by the University of Medical Sciences of Havana of around 600 foreign students as health professionals and technicians, when the pandemic generated by COVID-19 threatens to worsen in many nations of the world is, without a doubt, the opportune one. international contribution from another Cuba. to this battle
In brief statements to the ACN, Dr. Jorge González Pérez, national director of Education of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), said that in the next few days planes will fly with many of these new ones.
He graduates from nations on the African continent, a region heavily affected by the pandemic and where the brigades of the Henry Reeves contingent from the largest of the Antilles save lives on a daily basis.
According to Cosme Moré Cuesta, a communicator from the University of Medical Sciences, at the events held in his Aula Magna, the first 250 graduates from the Republic of the Congo received their degrees, then 269 from the Republic of Angola, and finally more than 70 out of 19 nations, with highlights for Chad, Ghana, the United States, Palestine and Colombia.
Several faculties, scattered by Havana hospitals, receive students from dozens of nations year after year, in specialties such as Medicine, Stomatology and Health Technologies, many of them under the modality financed by the government.
During their training, the students joined the health promotion and prevention work, the sustained campaign to combat arboviruses, the confrontation with natural disasters and in the last stage, the battle against COVID-19, shoulder to shoulder with professionals and Cuban students.
In the presence of officials from their respective embassies and MINSAP, the new medical science professionals, some with gold degrees and diplomas from the best graduates, thanked their teachers for all their help in achieving the desired goal.
The educational authorities exhorted them to be faithful defenders of the humanist vocation that characterizes Cuban public health and the model in which they were trained, to continue deepening the bonds of collaboration and friendship between Cuba and its nations, and to demonstrate their solidarity with others. lands in the world.
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