“Cuba’s contribution to medical education"

[Robo]

“Cuba’s contribution to medical education in the region has been welcomed by many Pacific countries,” according to a recent story from Radio Australia (the Aussie version of NPR, hence liberal in outlook.) “But some are finding that doctors who’ve studied in Cuba need extra training when they return home. Tuvalu finds Cuban-trained doctors need skills gap filled.”


Back in 2008, you see, Tuvalu fell for the Castro-regime/United Nations/mainstream media propaganda mantra about Cuba’s “free and fabulous healthcare” and eagerly sent 22 promising Tuvaluan students to medical school in Cuba.

But upon their return with those medical degrees, as Radio Australia explains [emphasis added]:

“the [Tuvaluan] government is concerned about their level of practical training … So the Education Department is planning to send returning [from Cuba] Tuvalu doctors to Kiribati [a nearby primitive island] for a special internship, as the department’s pre-service training officer Atabi Ewekia explains.”
In brief, the incompetence of Cuba-trained doctors is such that they will be essentially “de-programmed” in a medical school where, a mere two generations ago, medicine was probably the province of witch-doctors with bones through their noses. https://www.theblaze.com/contributio...lthcare-scam-2

[Nordberg]

Every doctor needs training when they move. The hospitals have different systems and different equipment. Cuba has been sending doctors around the world for generations.

[Robo]

Every doctor needs training when they move. The hospitals have different systems and different equipment. Cuba has been sending doctors around the world for generations.

Well Nordi, according to Radio Australia Cuba's doctor training is a bleeping joke!!!!!

[Nordberg]

Well Nordi, according to Radio Australia Cuba's doctor training is a bleeping joke!!!!!

Oh, well in your bunker That is proof. Only it isn't. Forbes seems to disagree.https://www.forbes.com/sites/billfri.../#5f35376c195e

[Guno צְבִי]

Of course the op knows nothing about Cuban medicine and has never been to cuba , a typical trump ignoramus, thankfully his kind are dying off, literally

Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...aw/1019093001/


Cuban Medical School Trains US Doctors of Color

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2018/...tors-of-color/

[Guno צְבִי]

Why African-American Doctors Are Choosing to Study Medicine in Cuba

https://www.newyorker.com/science/el...dicine-in-cuba


3 of Cuba's Major Medical Achievements

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cubas-...ry?id=43844344

[Guno צְבִי]

Well Nordi, according to Radio Australia Cuba's doctor training is a bleeping joke!!!!!

you are a total fucking low IQ southern cracka moron

[cancel2 2022]

Interesting article in the Conversation, many Cuban doctors, until fairly recently at least, were sent to Venezuela to earn hard cash for the Cuban government and boost their own salaries.

http://theconversation.com/is-the-cu...le-claim-69526

[Robo]

https://www.quora.com/Can-we-believe...alth-statistic

[Robo]

1. The Myth of Cuban Health Care | National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/2007/...ealth-care/Jul 11, 2007 ... The Left has always had a deep psychological need to believe in the myth of Cuban health care. On that island, as everywhere else, ...


Can we believe in Cuba's medical and health statistic?
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Iniciativa Cubaverdad, Travelling to Cuba and following the news about Cuba for over 20 years.
Updated Jun 5 2016 · Author has 459 answers and 348.6k answer views
No. International experts and Cuban doctors that have left Cuba have confirmed that Cuba’s health statistics are manipulated for political reasons. (1)
A quote:
"However, some experts said that this obsession with statistics can be a two-edged sword when it comes to reliability. Some say Cuba is so concerned with its infant mortality and life-expectancy statistics that the government takes heavy-handed actions to protect their international rankings.
"Cuba does have a very low infant mortality rate, but pregnant women are treated with very authoritarian tactics to maintain these favorable statistics," said Tassie Katherine Hirschfeld, the chair of the department of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma who spent nine months living in Cuba to study the nation's health system. "They are pressured to undergo abortions that they may not want if prenatal screening detects fetal abnormalities. If pregnant women develop complications, they are placed in 'Casas de Maternidad' for monitoring, even if they would prefer to be at home. Individual doctors are pressured by their superiors to reach certain statistical targets. If there is a spike in infant mortality in a certain district, doctors may be fired. There is pressure to falsify statistics."
Hirschfeld said she's "a little skeptical" about the longevity data too, since Cuba has so many risk factors that cause early death in other countries, from unfiltered cigarettes to contaminated water to a meat-heavy diet. In a more benign statistical quirk, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Pittsburgh, suggests that the flow of refugees could skew longevity statistics, since those births are recorded but the deaths are not.
Transparency would help give the data more credibility, but the Cuban government doesn't offer much, experts said." (2)
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Iniciativa Cubaverdad, Travelling to Cuba and following the news about Cuba for over 20 years.
Updated Jun 5 2016 · Author has 459 answers and 348.6k answer views
No. International experts and Cuban doctors that have left Cuba have confirmed that Cuba’s health statistics are manipulated for political reasons. (1)
A quote:
"However, some experts said that this obsession with statistics can be a two-edged sword when it comes to reliability. Some say Cuba is so concerned with its infant mortality and life-expectancy statistics that the government takes heavy-handed actions to protect their international rankings.
"Cuba does have a very low infant mortality rate, but pregnant women are treated with very authoritarian tactics to maintain these favorable statistics," said Tassie Katherine Hirschfeld, the chair of the department of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma who spent nine months living in Cuba to study the nation's health system. "They are pressured to undergo abortions that they may not want if prenatal screening detects fetal abnormalities. If pregnant women develop complications, they are placed in 'Casas de Maternidad' for monitoring, even if they would prefer to be at home. Individual doctors are pressured by their superiors to reach certain statistical targets. If there is a spike in infant mortality in a certain district, doctors may be fired. There is pressure to falsify statistics."
Hirschfeld said she's "a little skeptical" about the longevity data too, since Cuba has so many risk factors that cause early death in other countries, from unfiltered cigarettes to contaminated water to a meat-heavy diet. In a more benign statistical quirk, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Pittsburgh, suggests that the flow of refugees could skew longevity statistics, since those births are recorded but the deaths are not.
Transparency would help give the data more credibility, but the Cuban government doesn't offer much, experts said." (2)
https://www.quora.com/Can-we-believe...alth-statistic