By John M. Kirk
“Invaluable. offers abundant, particular, and transparent facts of the total evolution of scientific internationalism inside of Cuban overseas and social coverage, going well past the headlines to track that evolution rigorously and honestly.”—Antoni Kapcia, coeditor of The altering Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society
“Offers a textured and nuanced evaluation of a fancy politico-cultural phenomenon.”—Louis A. Pérez, writer of The constitution of Cuban historical past: Meanings and objective of the Past
Cuba has extra clinical team of workers serving abroad—over 50,000 in sixty six countries—than all the G-7 international locations mixed, and likewise greater than the realm future health association. For over 5 many years, the island country has been a number one strength within the constructing international, supplying humanitarian relief (or “cooperation,” as Cuba’s govt prefers) and starting up courses for preventative care and scientific training.
In Healthcare with no Borders, John Kirk examines the position of Cuban scientific groups in catastrophe aid, biotechnology joint ventures, and within the Latin American tuition of Medicine—the greatest clinical school on the planet. He appears to be like at their responses to varied crises around the globe, together with the 1960 earthquake in Chile, the Chernobyl catastrophe within the Ukraine, the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the next cholera outbreak, and the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
Kirk matters an informative and enlightening corrective for what he describes because the tendency of the industrialized world’s media to disregard or underreport this scientific reduction phenomenon. within the strategy, Kirk explores the philosophical underpinnings of human rights and entry to therapy on the middle of Cuba’s scientific internationalism courses and partnerships.
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It was extremely cold when they arrived, and they were ill prepared. ) They didn’t speak the language or share the same customs or religion. They were regarded with suspicion by French and Algerian doctors, who could not understand why they had volunteered to come to Algeria, much less why they refused to charge patients for their medical services and treated women with such respect. This was the first large Cuban medical delegation. The personnel stayed for just over a year, when they were replaced by a second mission in June 1964, which consisted of 24 doctors, 4 dentists, 24 nurses, and 9 health technicians, who helped to set up a national health system in Algeria.
Cuba was now benefiting from Soviet support following the rupture of diplomatic relations in January 1961 by Washington and the October 1962 Missile Crisis, and had some degree of financial and military security. For the revolutionary leadership, providing support was a moral imperative, and so the basis for Cuban medical internationalism was established. In May 1963, a Cubana Airlines plane transported the medical delegation to Algeria. Preparations had been terrible. The volunteers had no idea how long they would remain in Algeria, where they would be located, or what they would be doing.
In the case of post-conflict Angola, for instance, Cuba charged the government $1,100 per month for the services of an experienced physician. 24 Angola has extensive oil reserves, and as a result the country was charged an agreed-upon rate, one that was low by international standards—yet helped to subsidize medical cooperation elsewhere. Cuba has also been involved in training students from these regions back in Havana and in establishing medical schools in several developing countries. Cuba’s interest in training medical students in Cuba during the 1980s continued to grow.