Stalin
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We all know what the hapless frump wants in cuba - a mafia state like it used to be and into which the US is slowly subsiding
for him and his venal family and assorted lickspittle...
the excuse for a man is determined to destroy anything of human decency and value...
FACT : Cuba established a medical school in New York for students from disadvantaged backgrounds who could
not afford the exhorbitant cost of a medical education.
"..In recent months, many people across Latin America and the Caribbean have suddenly found themselves without healthcare, as nearly a dozen countries acquiesce to pressure from the US to end medical agreements with the Cuban government.
The US claims that the programme amounts to “forced labour” for doctors, who have most of their salaries withheld by the Cuban government.
Cuba acknowledges the retention but denies any human rights violations, saying the allegation is merely a pretext for the White House’s efforts to economically strangle the island and force regime change, which include the now months-long blockade of oil shipments.
Meanwhile, doctors, NGOs and researchers agree that the people who will be most affected by the sudden withdrawal of doctors – typically deployed to remote and historically underserved healthcare areas – will be the region’s poorest communities.
“We did not get sufficient time to come up with or put in place a contingency,” said Damion Gordon, a lecturer at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. “It just happened suddenly, which created a sudden gap … and a crisis for those communities,” he added.
US pressure to end the partnerships has included cancelling the visas of government officials – and even their family members – who have had any connection to the programme.
Since Donald Trump began his second term, the governments of Jamaica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, and Paraguay have ended the medical agreements, either immediately or gradually.
The lone point of resistance has been Mexico, where the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has refused to end the programme, saying that the about 3,000 Cuban doctors are of “great help” as they work in remote areas where there is a shortage of personnel.
“People in rural conditions are the ones who will suffer,” said John Kirk, professor emeritus of Latin American studies at Dalhousie University in Canada.
The programme emerged in 1960, when a medical brigade was sent to Chile to help treat victims of an earthquake. Since then, more than 600,000 Cuban doctors, nurses and health technicians have been deployed to more than 160 countries.
Cuba does not release precise data, but estimates suggest there are now more than 20,000 doctors across about 50 countries, with specialisms ranging from obstetrics and paediatrics to surgery and oncology.
www.theguardian.com
good one donald - if there was a nobel prize for being a sociopathic arsehole, you would win it very year...
full marks to mexico for standing up to the malignant narcissus.
comrade stalin
moscow
for him and his venal family and assorted lickspittle...
the excuse for a man is determined to destroy anything of human decency and value...
FACT : Cuba established a medical school in New York for students from disadvantaged backgrounds who could
not afford the exhorbitant cost of a medical education.
"..In recent months, many people across Latin America and the Caribbean have suddenly found themselves without healthcare, as nearly a dozen countries acquiesce to pressure from the US to end medical agreements with the Cuban government.
The US claims that the programme amounts to “forced labour” for doctors, who have most of their salaries withheld by the Cuban government.
Cuba acknowledges the retention but denies any human rights violations, saying the allegation is merely a pretext for the White House’s efforts to economically strangle the island and force regime change, which include the now months-long blockade of oil shipments.
Meanwhile, doctors, NGOs and researchers agree that the people who will be most affected by the sudden withdrawal of doctors – typically deployed to remote and historically underserved healthcare areas – will be the region’s poorest communities.
“We did not get sufficient time to come up with or put in place a contingency,” said Damion Gordon, a lecturer at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. “It just happened suddenly, which created a sudden gap … and a crisis for those communities,” he added.
US pressure to end the partnerships has included cancelling the visas of government officials – and even their family members – who have had any connection to the programme.
Since Donald Trump began his second term, the governments of Jamaica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, and Paraguay have ended the medical agreements, either immediately or gradually.
The lone point of resistance has been Mexico, where the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has refused to end the programme, saying that the about 3,000 Cuban doctors are of “great help” as they work in remote areas where there is a shortage of personnel.
“People in rural conditions are the ones who will suffer,” said John Kirk, professor emeritus of Latin American studies at Dalhousie University in Canada.
The programme emerged in 1960, when a medical brigade was sent to Chile to help treat victims of an earthquake. Since then, more than 600,000 Cuban doctors, nurses and health technicians have been deployed to more than 160 countries.
Cuba does not release precise data, but estimates suggest there are now more than 20,000 doctors across about 50 countries, with specialisms ranging from obstetrics and paediatrics to surgery and oncology.
‘A sudden gap’: poorest to suffer from Trump’s drive to stop Cuba sending doctors to its neighbours
People across Latin America and the Caribbean find themselves without care as countries bow to US pressure
good one donald - if there was a nobel prize for being a sociopathic arsehole, you would win it very year...
full marks to mexico for standing up to the malignant narcissus.
comrade stalin
moscow
