Argentinean Press Highlights Training of Doctors Graduated in Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, April 28 (acn) The Argentinean newspaper Página 12, with national coverage, has highlighted the work of youngsters from that country who graduated as doctors in Cuba, giving free medical treatment to residents in a poor neighborhood south of Buenos Aires.

Propuesta Tatu, a non-governmental organization (NGO) composed of graduates from Havana's Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) opened a health centre for the treatment of the population living in the 17 de Noviembre neighbourhood, in the municipality of Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, Prensa Latina news agency reports.

The report underlines the altruistic work of these physicians, who offer their services in an area in which about 4,000 families and some 20,000 people live.

Página 12 reports that the members of Propuesta Tatu have planned the training of people living in this neighborhood, in order to organize health groups, help them become familiar with common diseases in the community, and how to recognize and prevent them..

Medicaments for each case are also given free of charge, due to contacts from the aforementioned organization with laboratories making donations.

This ONG was conceived in 2002 by Argentinean youngsters studying at ELAM, and began to materialize in 2007 in neighbourhoods inhabited by people with scant resources in the city and province of Buenos Aires, and presently has a total of 11 projects.

(Destacan labor de médicos argentinos graduados en Cuba)