Cuban Healthcare in Haiti:

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Thursday June 10, 2010 17:20 by LASC - Latin America Solidarity Centre and Cuba Supoort Group Ireland

SEMINAR & SCREENING FREE ADMISSION!!!

Cuban Healthcare in Haiti:

The seminar will include a screening of the film Haiti's Healthcare Reborn (22mins) focusing on Cuba’s response to the Haitian earthquake in January and its 10-year commitment to rebuild the Haitian healthcare system from the ground up. At the time of the earthquake, Cuba already had 152 medical and education personnel working in the Haitian capital Port au Prince and was immediately treating the injured in a field hospital. Cuba has over 40,000 medical personnel operating in 103 countries, a major contribution from a developing country which is still subject to a crippling economic blockade by the United States.

Dr David Hickey

(Beaumont Hospital and visiting professor of surgery at Havana University)

Maria Aleida del Riego

(ICAP-Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples)

VENUE:

Liberty Hall, Dublin

DATE:

Tuesday 15 June 2010

TIME:

6.30 – 8.00pm

EVERYONE WELCOME - ADMISSION FREE

DONATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED IN SUPPORT THE CUBAN MEDICAL AID PROGRAM TO HAITI