Free Medical Education! – In Cuba?

Cuba Trains Physicians for Wealthy United States

Affirmative Action, Cuban Style, New England Journal of Medicine Volume 351:2680-2682 December 23, 2004 Number 26 What an irony that poor Cuba is training doctors for rich America, engaging in affirmative action on our behalf, and – while blockaded by U.S. ships and sanctions – spending its meager treasure to improve the health of U.S. citizens.

http://academic.udayton.edu/health/02organ/providers01.htm

Free medical school! Sounds impossible to US citizens. When people first hear it, they can’t believe that Cuba has offered and is proving totally free medical education of various specialties to poor and minority students from countries all over the world. How could Cuba, a “3rd World” country itself really be doing this. If they do a simple web search, it turns out that not only has Cuba provided such training to thousands of specialist from the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa, but more recently, they even offered this training to US students!

http://www.dccofc.org/Information/cuba_medical.htm
Without access to junk food, one first-year student said he lost 26 pounds since arriving in August.

http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/cuba/uscuba/539.html

If you are interested in this, check out the links below and do your own research.