Pérez CI, Castro GI

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The guarantee of free medical attention to all the Cuban population became, from the first moments of the triumph of the Revolution, one of the fundamental social paradigms. This corresponds to the humanist and social justice essence that characterizes the Cuban revolutionary process. From the revolutionary triumph itself, the work began with the creation of the National Health System that implemented the action of the health worker to the most remote places. The created system began to carry out important reforms from the 1960s, as a fundamental part of the transformations of the revolutionary period and in response to the most absolute respect to one of the fundamental human rights of every citizen. In the pre-revolutionary stage, medical and hospital care was characterized by the predominance of private and mutual services. This modality in the health services inhibited the access to the lowest-income people, who had as their only option the Relief Houses, which mainly attended emergency cases. The facilities and medical personnel were located mainly in the capital of the country, where 65 % of the doctors and 62 % of the existing beds were concentrated. In rural areas, there was practically no medical care and there was only one rural hospital.

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