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Sunday 26 October 2008,
San José, Costa Rica
Cuban Doctors to
Instruct Guatemalans
GUATEMALA -
Members of the Cuban
doctors brigade will be
working at five
hospitals along with
Guatemalan specialists
instructing
pediatricians,
orthopedics,
anesthesiologists,
gynecologists and
obstetricians, and
surgeons.
According to coordinator
for the Cuban Doctors
Brigade, Jose Ramon
Ruiz, Cuban physicians
will be instructing new
graduates from the Latin
American School of
Medicine in the
specialties the country
needs the most.
"Ten years after the
arrival of the first
health workers in
Guatemala, cooperation
has modified
qualitatively", said
Ruiz.
Dean of the Cuban
brigade Madeleine Garcia
said that the master
degrees and specialty
instructions increase
scientific level and
allow the brigade to
recommend the country
how to improve health
indicators.
During this decade in
Guatemala, Cuban
physicians have helped
drop mother and infant
mortality rates to half
the former numbers.
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