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Over 15,000 Foreign Physicians Graduated in Cuba in Seven
Years
HAVANA, Cuba, July 14 (acn)
Thanks to the project of Havana’s Latin American Medical
School
(ELAM), over 15,000 students from about 100 nations have
become physicians since the first
graduation of the center in 2005, as announced by officials
of that institution.
In an exclusive
interview with ACN, Nancy Remon, director for International
Relations of the ELAM, pointed out that over 8,000 from that
figure concluded their studies in the 2011-2012 academic
year -the 8th and the largest graduation in the school’s
history. Founded by the leader of the Cuban Revolution on
November 15, 1999, the Project is part of the Comprehensive
Health Program with which the Caribbean island extends its
solidarity to several States in terms of medical
cooperation.
Dr. Juan Carrizo, rector of the ELAM, stated that this shows
what a nation that is poor in economic resources by rich in
spirit and with the necessary political will can do to help
other peoples.
Remon added that, at present, over 19,000 students from more
than 100 Latin American and Caribbean countries, as well as
from the United States, Africa, Asia and Oceania are
studying to become physicians by way of this
scientific-pedagogical project.
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