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The Cuban government operates a national health system and assumes fiscal and administrative responsibility for the health care of all its citizens. [1] All healthcare in Cuba is free to Cuban residents, [2] although challenges include low salaries for doctors, poor facilities, poor provision of equipment, and the frequent absence of essential drugs.
Health in Cuba refers to the overall health of the population of Cuba. Like the rest of the Cuban economy , Cuban medical care suffered following the end of Soviet subsidies in 1991; the stepping up of the US embargo against Cuba at this time also had an effect.
We help maintain Cuba’s illegal but necessary grassroots healthcare network | Opinion
Health care in Cuba consists of a government-coordinated system that guarantees universal coverage and consumes a lower proportion of the nation's GDP (7.3%) than some highly privatised systems (e.g. USA: 16%) (OECD 2008). The system does charge fees in treating elective treatment for patients from abroad, but tourists who fall ill are treated ...
A Cuban surgeon with scrub cap performing an open air operation in Guinea-Bissau for the PAIGC liberation movement, 1974. A 2007 academic study on Cuban internationalism surveyed the history of the program, noting its broad sweep: "Since the early 1960s, 28,422 Cuban health workers have worked in 37 Latin American countries, 31,181 in 33 African countries, and 7,986 in 24 Asian countries.
May 29—CUBA, N.M. — Some medical staff at the Cuba Health Center commute from Rio Rancho, Albuquerque and even as far as Los Lunas. One emergency services worker commutes 600 miles round-trip ...
This is a list of hospitals in Cuba. There are no private hospitals or clinics in Cuba , as all health services are government-run. There were 150 hospitals in Cuba, as of 2019.
Medical and health organizations based in Cuba (4 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Healthcare in Cuba" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.