Pakistan Quake Victims in Cuba

[Mika]

Pakistan Quake Victims in Cuba

Havana, Feb 13 (Prensa Latina) Pakistani victims of devastating October 8 quake arrived in Cuba to end a rehabilitation treatment started at field hospitals, Granma newspaper reports Monday.

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Meanwhile, a specialized workshop is being stationed at a Cuban medical facility in the Pakistani village of Abbottabad to expand care for more people.

Over 80 patients are currently rehabilitating there with technical equipment and the assistance of orthopedists, psychologists, psychiatrists and physiotherapists.

According to Granma, the first 74 doctors and health staffers from the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade that are offering medical help in Pakistan return to the Island.

Cuban health personnel arrived in Pakistan eight days after the killer earthquake last October 8.

Note: The Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade was the emergency medical team Cuba offered to New Orleans days after Katrina that Bush didn't even respond to.

The Cuban medical team is the largest team of any nation helping in Pakistan after the earthquake last year.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Beautiful news, Mika. So many people have been helped there.

Recently we've read the news of U.S. Americans being invited to make use of their eye care specialists, and others throughout the Caribbean and some Latin American countries.

Beyond that, they've taken in nuclear explosion victems from the Ukraine, and gone to disaster scenes all over the world, and were the first ones into Haiti to start helping the utterly undefended Haitians during the start of the last coup/bloodbath.

They are earning respect, one act at a time, leaving healing in their wake.

[Mika]

2. Note that it is not Castro treating these victims..

.. its the membership of the Cuban Ministry of Health.


In starting this thread I am in support of the good works of the Cuban people who make this generosity possible.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Swiss drawn to Cuba by biotech success

Tuesday 14.02.2006, CET 10:50

Swiss drawn to Cuba by biotech success
swissinfo February 13, 2006 11:27 AM



The Centre for Genetic Engineering
and Biotechnology is a scientific
leader in Cuba (CIGB)

The success of biotechnology research in Cuba is the main pull-factor for a Swiss delegation arriving in the country for a one-week official visit on Monday.

Leading the delegation is the State Secretary for Education and Research, Charles Kleiber, the highest-ranking Swiss government representative to travel to Cuba on official business.
(snip)

Against the odds

Observers say the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the United States trade embargo forced Cuba to develop homegrown solutions to local health problems.

Despite being relatively poor, Cuba's biotech sector is among the most successful in the developing world. Cuba exports biotechnology products to more than 50 countries, mainly in Latin America, eastern Europe and Asia.

Vaccines have been a particular focus of Cuban biotechnology. Local research and development programmes led to the first and only vaccine for a strain of meningitis.
(snip/...)

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=107&sid=6461694&cKey=1139826431000

[Mika]

4. I wonder how long it will be before Condi & crew renew their accusations..

.. that Cuba's Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology is a WMD development site.


I doesn't matter what good works Cuba does, the US always has some demonization plan underway.