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Cuban Specialists Continue Study on Disabled People in Nicaraguan Capital

CUBA, February 5, 2010. Cuban and Nicaraguan experts continue a study on disabled people in Nicaragua as part of a program called ‘Todos con voz’ (Everyone with Voice) to provide them with medical assistance and, at the same time, restore their citizen rights.

After conducting the study in several localities of this Central American country, the health professionals have begun to work in Managua, the country’s capital.
According to Prensa Latina news agency, Dr. Miladys Orraca, coordinator of the brigade, said that during previous work carried out in the municipalities of the department of Managua, 9,057 cases were studied.

Thus far, the research was concluded in the departments of Chinandega, Masaya and Matagalpa, one of the most complex areas for being situated in a mountain range, and also in the municipalities of San Francisco Libre, Tipitapa, Mateare, Ciudad Sandino, San Rafael del Sur, El Crucero and Ticuantepe.

The ‘Todo con Voz’ program emerged as an initiative of Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro. It has been also implemented in other countries members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA). (Cubaminrex- ACN)

 

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