Cuba to Complete Disability Study in ALBA countries
Public Health Minister, Roberto Morales, said that Cuba will complete soon the psycho-social and clinical-genetic study on people with motor and mental disabilities in the member countries of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA).
More than 3,800,000 homes have been visited so far in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as part of study conducted by Cuban specialists, said today the Cuban News Agency.
We conducted the study on more than one million patients and provided medical care to 1,960,000 people who were not in the sample, explained Morales during a meeting Friday at the Central Unit for Cooperation with doctors who returned from Nicaragua and Chile.
At the meeting on Friday participated the first Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, who congratulated the 139 members of the Henry Reeve Brigade (in Chile), all with Voice (Nicaragua) on behalf of the Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro.
Machado Ventura highlighted the work of Cuban personnel in Chile after the earthquake of February and the health staff in Haiti, who are helping these people to confront the epidemic of cholera.
Disability research, unprecedented in the world is been conducted by geneticists, specialists in psychology, physiatrists, defectology specialist doctors, neurophysiologists and neuro-pediatricians.