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Book on Cuban Medical Cooperation Presented at Havana Fair

CUBA, February 15, 2007.- Cuba's internationalist medical cooperation is the subject of a book launched at Havana's Medical Science Institute on Wednesday as part of activities surrounding the 16th International Book Fair taking place in the island's capital.

Titled Alborada de Esperanza (The dawn of hope) the 354-page book written by Radio Havana Cuba journalist Susana del Calvo Penichet deals with the work of Cuban medical specialists in Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela, who have assisted people and saved lives in remote areas of those countries.

Testimonies, experiences, anecdotes and photos are all contained in the book, which also dedicates some of its pages to the foreign students who are studying medicine free of charge in Cuba.

Ecuadorian doctor Miguel Marquez, professor at the Havana Higher Institute of Medical Sciences wrote the prologue to the book. He spoke about Cuban internationalist solidarity in the public health sector, which began in 1963 with the work of the first Cuban brigade in Algeria. He recalled that, up to date, more than 100,000 Cuban medical specialists have offered their services in hundreds of countries.

Marquez, who since the 1970s has dedicated his life to promoting healthcare for all, highlighted the humane character of public health in the benefit of other countries and wished Fidel Castro, the promoter of such values, to keep on with his love for humankind.

"We live and become exhausted in a world driven by opulence, and unprecedented consumerism, full of limitations, poverty and human inequity, oppression and, above all, lack of solidarity," he said.

Susana del Calvo has dedicated herself to scientific journalism for some 25 years at Radio Havana Cuba. (Cubaminrex-ACN)

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Cultura-Libro

Presentan libro sobre colaboración médica cubana

Por Iris Armas Padrino

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