Citas

“Cuba has twice as many doctors per capita as all of the highest developed nations. No country has given, or is giving, more support to other peoples’ health care services, free of charge, than Cuba and no other has saved more lives. Thus, our people do not have, nor could it have, any inclination to become a bio-weapons producer.”

References to the original: Key address at the open forum held in Sancti Spiritus province, May 25, 2002

“Over the past seven years our battle for solidarity and for the training of doctors from Cuba and from other sister nations has been intense and ever-increasing. The means and the methodology have been incredibly revolutionized, and theoretical and practical training has considerably surpassed that which had traditionally prevailed throughout history.  It would be more accurate to say that the traditional form of training  has been improved several times over. ”

References to the original: Speech given at the first graduation of students from the Latin American School of Medicine, August 20, 2005

“Our youth always keeps alive the memory of those medical students and of all those students who fought against tyrannical and corrupt governments.”

References to the original: Speech delivered at the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of his admission to University of Havana, in the Aula Magna, November 17, 2005

"Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary; in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries".

References to the original: A brilliant and courageous statement, July 3, 2011

"The medical staff that is ready to go to any region to save lives, even at the risk of losing their own, is the best example of solidarity that human beings can offer, particularly if they are not moved by any material interest".

References to the original: The time of duty, October 17, 2014

"Nowadays men of science occupy a place of honor at research centers, laboratories and in factories producing medicines destined for human health, to overcome distances, concentrate energies, perfect investigation equipment so that it can function on earth and in space".

References to the original: The Human Species’ Uncertain Fate, 8 October 2016