2020, Number 3
Historic development of Cuban Medical Collaboration in 1960- 1990 stage
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: The exodus of medical personnel since the triumph of Cuban Revolution in 1959 established the premises for an accelerated training program for human resources in health. The National Health System is implemented with the emergence and expansion of medical universities in the provinces. At the same time, the first international medical aid was produced in Chile in 1960, officially being called International Medical Collaboration on May 23, 1963. Development: The particularities of the development of Cuban international medical collaboration in the period from the 60s to the 90s are described, by stages, characterized by their growing behavior depending on the transformations in the political, economic and social order, diversified in different modalities and expanded in accordance with the potentialities of the Cuban health system and the expansion of bilateral and solidarity relations with international organizations and with the countries of the so-called Third World. Conclusions: The Cuban International Medical Collaboration is an expression of the solidarity in force in the foreign policy of the Cuban revolutionary government; its own development favored the appearance of different collaboration modalities and their diversification in relation to the attention to the needs of the peoples throughout the world. It is a summary of the purest feelings of internationalism and a way to promote medical practice, the provision of services and the indisputable strengthening of the training of human resources in health.REFERENCES
Castro F. Discurso pronunciado por el Presidente de la República de Cuba, Fidel Castro Ruz, en el acto en la inauguración del Instituto de Ciencias Básicas y Preclínicas ‘Victoria de Girón’ el 17 de octubre de 1962 [Internet] [acceo 18/02/2009]. 1965. Disponible en: http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1962/esp/f17 1062e.html.
Castro FA. Algunas ideas vertidas en diferentes discursos pronunciados por el Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro que tienen que ver con la formación del médico a egresar de la Educación Superior y con la especialidad de Medicina General Integral y que sirvieron de base para la elaboración del nuevo plan de estudio de medicina 1981-1984. Selección de discursos, Vicerrectoría de Desarrollo, La Habana.