Global Friday Presents
Dr. John Kirk
Professor, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies
Dalhousie University

ABSTRACT:

The role that Cuba has in providing medical care to the Global South is perhaps the world's best kept secret, and is widely ignored by our media.  Prior to the outbreak of Covid-19 Cuba already had 28,500 medical personnel working in 58 countries.  Since then a further 3,700 have provided specialized medical care in 38 countries.  This is a tradition that started in 1960, and since then some 400,000 Cuban medics have provided assistance throughout the globe. This talk, based upon interviews with 270 Cuban medical personnel who have provided assistance in these medical missions, seeks to provide an understanding of the extensive nature of this medical international "a la cubana," and to explain why Cuba has done so.  Cuban medical cooperation should no longer be ignored.

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