[NYTr] Nicaragua's First Brigade of Doctors To Aid Remote Areas

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Nicaragua's First Brigade of Doctors To Aid Remote Areas

Havana, August 7 (acn) A group of Nicaraguan undergraduate doctors 
attending medical school in Cuba are going back to their country to 
complete their sixth year training period treating people of extremely 
poor communities on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.

As reported by the website 'La voz del andinismo', this group of 
students from Havana's Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), will 
become Nicaragua's first brigade of doctors under the name of Vilma 
Espin, the late heroine of the Cuban Revolution.

Indigenous settlements in isolated communities which had been long 
neglected will benefit from the aid of the medical brigade which, in 
the words of Nicaraguan Ambassador to Cuba Luis Cabrera, will treat 
their humble compatriots.

These young students started their medical studies in the ELAM in 2001 
as part of a project in the context of the Bolivarian Alternative for 
the Americas (ALBA) for regional integration. Now they will have the 
chance to graduate on the field, beside Cuban doctors in cooperation 
missions in their homeland.