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MEDICC Aid for Devastated Cuban Medical School
Sept. 8, 2008
MEDICC - Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba - has launched a drive to assist the devastated Isle of Youth Medical School in Cuba in the wake of Hurricane Gustav.
The Isle was one of two Cuban regions hardest hit by Gustav, the worst hurricane to ravage Cuba in the last 50 years. The small island south of the mainland is home to over 5,000 students of medicine, about half Cuban and half students from low-income families in Latin America and the Caribbean who have pledged to serve in poor communities when they graduate.
While all the students and faculty are safe, their School of Medicine was totally destroyed by the winds. The School, even in temporary facilities, desperately needs to replenish stocks of reference textbooks lost when its buildings were destroyed. MEDICC (Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba) already has one shipment of books on the way: and has launched an appeal to donors to help send at least five more.
"Thanks to the Free Trade in Ideas Act, medical literature is exempt from the otherwise draconian US embargo on Cuba," noted MEDICC International Director Gail Reed. "So more books can be airlifted directly to Cuba as soon as they're purchased."
For more information, see: http://www.medicc.org, or write Murlean Tucker, Program Manager, admin1@mediccatlanta.org.
See also: The current issue of the peer-reviewed journal, MEDICC Review, focusing on Cuban Strategies for Disaster Management, available as an open access publication.
About MEDICC
Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) is a US non-profit organization based in Atlanta, Georgia and Oakland, California working to enhance cooperation among the US, Cuban and global health communities aimed at better health outcomes. Founded in 1997, MEDICC supports education and development of human resources in health committed to equitable access and quality care, providing the Cuban experience to inform global debate, practice, policies and cooperation in health.
MEDICC’s Textbooks & Journals Program for Cuban Medical Schools has shipped multiple copies of over 100 latest-edition books to Cuba’s 23 medical schools over the last five years.
© 2008 MEDICC
For full article, visit:
http://www.medicc.org
category: Member Organization News : Announcements
contributed by on 6 September 2008
North America : United States
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