Cuban Doctors Obtain Satisfactory Results in Nicaragua CUBA, Mar 17, 2010. - The Cuban doctors incorporated to the Todos con Voz brigade, aimed at helping the disabled in Nicaragua, have already studied the cases of 47,188 people since they began this task in October. A total of 13,187 show intellectual disabilities and 34,001 other types of limitations, while 1,514 cases have been described as critical, 551 of which have been solved, the Prensa Latina news agency reports. The studies have already been made in the departments of Masaya, Matagalpa and Chinandega and are now being carried out in Managua, to then continue to Leon. Coordinated by Miladys Orraca, director on the island of the Provincial Center of Genetics of western Pinar del Rio province, the brigade is composed of 25 Nicaraguan doctors and 65 Cuban professionals from various specialties. Every day, with the support of several hundreds of voluntary workers, the members of this brigade visit each and every house in the neighborhoods to identify people with disabilities. Their purpose is to collect the information necessary to allow the Sandinista government to devise plans and programs to treat this vulnerable sector of the Nicaraguan population. (Cubaminrex - acn)
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