CUBA HEALTH SYSTEM

Cuba has graduated 170 doctors from the United States through the project of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), which was initiated by Cuban leader Fidel Castro in November 1999»

 The Cuban public health authorities are on alert due to an outbreak of Epidemic Hemorrhagic Conjunctivitis, an eye ailment that usually increases its incidence in from September to December»

Dr. Paulyn Jean B. Rosell-Ubial, secretary of Health of the Philippines, praised on Wednesday in Havana the Cuban health system and expressed her interest in holding exchanges in this field»