[NYTr] More than 100 Haitian and Malian Doctors to Graduate in Cuba
 
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 17:47:01 -0500 (CDT)

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Over 100 Haitian and Malian Doctors to Graduate in Cuba

Havana, July 5 (acn) Some 109 Malian and Haitian doctors will receive 
their diplomas during the upcoming graduation ceremony to take place at 
the end of this school year in the  Caribbean medical sciences Faculty  
in the eastern Cuban province of Santiago de Cuba.

Over three decades, around 6,500 professionals including 569 foreign 
students from 22 countries have graduated from this Santiago de Cuba 
medical faculty, reports Granma newspaper.

Dr. Rosa Duconger, dean of the faculty, said the training of these 
doctors will contribute to the improvement of  healthcare situation in 
their countries.

Dr. Duconger noted that during their years of studying in Cuba, the 
students were able to take advantage of the wealth of experiences of 
the med school, which also trains Cuban doctors, and had a solid 
educational program that emphasized health promotion and disease 
prevention.

The students carried out their clinical internships at primary care 
facilities and general hospitals as well as the gynecological and 
pediatric teaching hospitals of Santiago de Cuba, which are reference 
points for public health in the eastern part of the island.

Dr. Duconger noted that this is the third graduation of Haitian doctors 
studying in Santiago. With the new grads, 305 doctors have graduated 
from the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

The project to train Haitian physicians began in 1999, geared to 
graduate 500 doctors within a decade. Presently 240 students are in 
their final years of classes.

The dean said the ties with Mali began in September 2001 when the first 
hundred students came to study medicine. Soon, the first 46 will 
graduate.

Although Mali is not in the Caribbean, but in Sub-Saharan Africa, she 
said it was included in the faculty program due to its great need for 
health care personnel.

Currently a total of 788 foreign students from ten countries including 
the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Guyana, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Guinea 
and Djibouti are studying at the Caribbean Medical Faculty.

Numerous graduates will go on to specialize in areas such as surgery, 
pediatrics, gynecology and community medicine as part of Cuba's 
cooperation in the field of healthcare with the countries included in 
the project.
       
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