Bolivians Applaud Cuban Aid
Bolivian organizations in solidarity with Cuba have highlighted the assistance of Cuban doctors who offer free medical care to low-income citizens in that Latin American nation.
In a press communiqué to the journal El Diario, parents of Bolivian youngsters who have been granted full scholarships in Cuba expressed their gratitude for the island's help.
In the article, they note that the Cuban medical team working in Bolivia —made up by 1,719 doctors— has assisted more than 776,000 patients and saved 1,326 lives.
According to the Prensa Latina news agency, Bolivians also commended the donation from Cuba of medicines and high-tech equipment provided to 20 hospitals. They also praised the work of the island’s medical personnel serving in nine Bolivian provinces.
Seven ophthalmologic centers have been opened in Bolivia as part of “Operation Miracle,” an eye-surgery program promoted by Cuba and Venezuela. Thanks to this humanitarian initiative, over 10,900 Bolivians who suffered from curable eye diseases have recovered their sight.
The island's cooperation with Bolivia in the fields of healthcare and education stems from agreements signed by Bolivia's President Evo Morales, Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez in Havana this past April.

The Cuban Revolution:

Solidarity for any country of the world

By these days, determined and little serious international means of diffusion have been dedicated to spread certain lies related to the Cuban Revolution work. Nevertheless, they omit true facts that furrow the ocean, because of its greatness, humanism: for example, they do not speak about Cuban contribution to health. Why don’t they mention those developed countries where the single objective is to look for resources and increase the inequality and the abuse?

The Medical Collaboration of Cuba began in 1963 when the first Brigade was sent to Argelia integrated by doctors, dentists, nurses and technicians. The greater expression of solidarity and internationalism of the medical collaboration of Cuba arose at the end of 1998 after the Mitch hurricane beat in several countries of Central America, mainly Honduras and Guatemala.

This natural disaster left hundreds of dead and missing people and caused terrible consequences for the economic and social infrastructure of these regions.

After this situation, Cuba responded immediately with the disposition to send medical personnel and to help without any premium as long as necessary apart of the contribution to technical equipment and medicines.

Taking into account the magnitude of the situation in these countries the Cuban government began to develop the Integral Program of Health for Central America and the Caribbean, which had been whipped shortly before by other meteorological phenomena, spreading to some countries of Africa and Asia.

This Integral Program of Health included the free sending of health professionals and technicians dedicated fundamentally to the primary attention, mainly in the countryside, to treat all the population without distinction of race, creed and ideology.

At the moment Cuba has medical collaboration relationship with more than half hundred of countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, the Australian Continent and Europe, with great social impact in the improvement of the health indicators and in the direct attention to the population with higher necessities in which the doctors impel the promotion and prevention of diverse diseases.


At the moment, more than 24 thousand workers in health field are in 40 countries by means of the Cuban medical collaboration, that in addition has contributed to the formation of almost four thousand professionals and equal number of technicians and to the creation of nine medicine schools in other latitudes.
From 1963 to 2005 the program of medical collaboration of the Island included to 101 countries, in which worked 132 thousand 383 employees of the public health of the so called “La mayor de las Antillas”.

Eight years after the Integral Program of Health was created, more than one hundred thousand lives have been saved; patients who would died in case they would not received medical attention on time.