number of patients mounts but the number of healers does not, whom do you call? That was the question for Giulio Gallera, the health minister in Lombardy, the Italian region worst hit by covid-19. The army was erecting a field hospital with 32 beds in a car park in Crema, 50km south-east of Milan. But what about doctors to attend them? “Someone said to me: ‘Write to the Cuban ministry of health,’” recalls Mr Gallera.
Cuba trains a staggering number of doctors for its size and wealth . Even though its population of 11m is not young, it has doctors to spare. More than usual are available. In the past 18 months 9,000 have left Brazil, Bolivia, El Salvador and Ecuador, where leftist presidents have recently lost power. According to, Cuba’s state-owned daily newspaper, the number of doctors and nurses abroad fell from more than 50,000 in 2015 to 28,000 in 2020.
But countries like Italy need help, and Cuba needs cash. Covid-19 has stopped tourism, a big source of income. Remittances from the United States will fall. Even before the pandemic Cuba was in trouble: in October it missed debt payments to creditor countries. One creditor is Italy, which might have accepted medical help as in-kind debt payment, says Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal, a professor at Queen Mary University in London. It is not clear whether all new host countries are paying up.
Do the doctors always travel with a framed picture of El Comandante?
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tsehaik Doctors are in high demand. Cuba maintains the myth that it has a good health care system by sending a few doctors - and a bunch of fuckers posing as doctors - to the distant corners of the earth to “cure people.”
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Cuba has done a great job in showing solidarity as a one nation of Homo sapiens against this invisible foe.
São os escravos do Modelo Casa Grande & Senzala. Escravos a serviço de classe de comunas caviar. Conheci um fugitivo que afirmou preferir ser lixeiro no Brasil acmédico em Cuba, 80% do salário recebido foi para a Casa Grande da ditadura .
Tell the truth, do some research. The are cheap labor for the Cuban dictatorship. These doctors are being quicked out from Venezuela, Bolivia. They are not so well prepared, according to local doctors.
Socialism is the furture.
Até mesmo porque é mais interessante para os 'médicos' cubanos enfrentarem o vírus chinês do que a fome e a prisão na Ilha de Castros! E outra provável causa é que estão trabalhando de maneira forçada pelo regime tirânico de Cuba. Estão mais para 'mercenários' escravos da ilha!
What had gone wrong with all thecapitalists doctors of the west?
They must a real threat to profit-extracting medical entrepreneurs.
Sometimes, great sacrifices have to be made to save one's country. Wow, Castro may have been a dictator (president), he is probably turning proudly in his grave. If you think I am wrong? Look at poverty stricken Haiti, which is not a communist country. Cuba is poor and proud.
They are good.
Yes, they do some things well. And this medical area is one. The Russians did rockets science well. But the standard of living in Cuba very low, probably 1950s. Capitalist economies not perfect but dictatorships well.... Both Cuba and Russia pre 1990s were/are 'one trick ponies'.
Yes, Angola and Cuba have a lovely history of co-operation.
Slave labour
What are the medics being traded for this time?
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