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Cuban University Graduates New Doctors for the Third World
CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba, July 27 (ACN) Some 122 professionals from 17 nations of the world graduated this year at the local medical university in this central Cuban province. The group included medical doctors and medical technology experts mostly from third world nations.


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University rector Benerando Sevilla said that over 7 000 professionals, who have retuned to their nations to benefit their people, have graduated from the center, whose current registration includes 917 youths from 52 nations, particularly from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
 
Paraguayan Ever Amarilla, the best foreign graduate, told PL news agency that he was proud to have studied in Cuba because he learned how to be an integral medical doctor with human and solidarity values.
 
Amarilla said he aspires to get back to his country and assist poor people with professionalism and the knowledge he received in sister Cuba.
 
Both foreign and Cuban students are offered the medical courses and all school materials free of charge as well as their food, medical attention and lodging.
 
The objective of these courses is forming highly-qualified human resources for Third World nations as a contribution to their integral development.

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