Cuba’s extraordinary global medical record shames the US blockade | Seumas Milne | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/03/cuba-global-medical-record-shames-us-blockade-ebola
There are now 50,000 Cuban doctors and nurses working in 60 developing countries. As Canadian professor John Kirk puts it: “Cuban medical internationalism has saved millions of lives.” But this unparalleled solidarity has barely registered in the western media.
Cuban doctors have carried out 3m free eye operations in 33 countries, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean, and largely funded by revolutionary Venezuela.
That’s how Mario Teran, the Bolivian sergeant who killed Che Guevara on CIA orders in 1967, had his sight restored 40 years later by Cuban doctors in an operation paid for by Venezuela in the radical Bolivia of Evo Morales.
#cuba #santé #ebola (cette dernière phrase sent légèrement la propagande… mais le reste du papier donne quelques chiffres intéressants, et montre qu’une partie de l’establishment démocrate à Washington fait campagne pour la levée du blocus)
