Guatemala: Cuban Doctors
Work Highlighted
Over 246,000 lives saved
and reduction of mother
and child mortality by
half are among
achievements boasted by
the Cuban Medical
Brigade in their nine
years of work in
Guatemala.
The first Cuban doctors
arrived to San Jose Port
and remote La Tinta
region in 1998 to aid
victims of Hurricane
Mitch and are present
today in 17 of the 22
Guatemalan departments.
"We have offered over 21
million consultations,
treating each and every
of these people and
conveying a message of
hope to them," the
brigade coordinator
Yoandra Muro said.
In a ceremony to mark
the 9th anniversary of
their presence here,
Muro highlighted the
opening of two modern
ophthalmology centers in
northern and eastern
Guatemala in the past
year, with about 15,000
patients surgically
operated so far.
The country already has
over 300 doctors
graduated from the
Havana-based Latin
American Medical School,
working in communities,
she noted. |
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