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Cuban Pediatric Surgeon Joins Global Organization

Cuba, June 23, 2010.- Cuban pediatric surgeon Rafael Manuel Trinchet is one of the 25 representatives of Global Paediatric Surgery Network (GPSN), a non-profit NGO that serves as a clearing house for volunteer work performed by pediatric surgeons around the world.

The organization’s director, professor Marilyn Butler, of the University of Stanford, in the United States, proposed that Trinchet join the organization.

Trinchet, who is the president of the Cuban Society of Pediatric Surgery, said being named member of the prestigious organization was a recognition to the Cuban pediatrics, whose high level was acknowledged during the Fourth Iberian-American and National Congress on the specialty, held in Havana on March this year.

The doctor said he would need the support of the island's experts to perform his job within the organization and noted that Cuban experts have the capabilities to take his place.

Trinchet said GPSN is a noble effort but he noted that the final solution for the children’s health problems requiring surgery depends on the governments’ political will.

Trinchet participated in international collaboration missions providing his services in Africa. Based on his experience in that continent, he regretted that there were countries in which there were not even one pediatric surgeons and that there are others where they are only found in the capitals.

GPSN seeks to spread the knowledge, provide technical and material support for the development of pediatric surgery across the world, in particular in developing cuntries. (Cubaminrex- ACN)