The Castroit regime has turned its medical power into a huge business, according to the regime newspaper Granma recent report, “The export of medical services will net Cuba 8.2 billion dollars in 2014.” The regime sells the labor of health workers at a high price and pays them low wages. For example, Brazil pays $4,300 per month for each Cuban doctor; the doctor actually receives only $1,000 after pressure from the Brazilian Health Department. Before that they were receiving only $430 a month, since the regime pocket 90%, which is normally what goes to the regime in other countries. But only $400 in cash per month is paid to the medical personnel, the rest is deposited in Cuba as a mean to encourage the doctors to return instead of deserting to other countries.
Where are you getting those numbers from and what is your source?
THe reasonI asked is because just about every negative story written about Cuba tends to be BS. In your own article a respondent claims that there is more to the story and uses many links to back his assertions. Unfortuneately they are all in Spanish and I can''t read Spanish. I have a good friend of mine who works with "Doctors Without Borders" and can atest that the Cuban Doctors are very happy to go help people abroad.
Jorge Juan Guerra symptoms were very similar to those of Ebola patients, not malaria. He probably die from Ebola, but since the report is from the Ministry of Health of the Castroit regime as reported by the Regime news agency, they probably decided to cover it up.Cuban worker in Guinea Jorge Juan Guerra Rodriguez dies from cerebral malaria
Cuban worker in Guinea, Jorge Juan Guerra Rodriguez, dies from cerebral malaria | Outbreak News Today
Posted by Robert Herriman on October 27, 2014
A member of the Medical Brigade team from Cuba who went to West Africa to fight Ebola, died from complications of cerebral malaria, according to a Cuban News Agency report today.
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60-year-old economist, Jorge Juan Guerra Rodriguez, died Monday from the serious parasitic disease, cerebral malaria from a Plasmodium falciparum infection. Rodriguez arrived in Guinea on Oct. 6 as part of a vanguard team of the medical brigade sent to battle Ebola.
The report states, as an economist with the medical brigade, Rodriguez never had any contacts with any Ebola treatment centers or with patients of that disease; however, he was submitted to two Ebola diagnostic tests whose results were negative.
Malaria is considered the most important parasitic disease affecting humans. The female Anopheles mosquito serves as the vector for the parasite.
The protozoan parasite belongs from the genus Plasmodium. There are many species of Plasmodium that infect vertebrates, but only 4 that are important to humans. The four species are: Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale.
In addition, there has been some documented cases of people getting simian malaria (P. knowlesi).
The disease may manifest itself after an incubation of days to months. Once the parasites build up in the blood, symptoms are non-specific; fever, chills, body aches, diarrhea and vomiting. At this point the only way to confirm is finding the parasites in blood. These early stages resemble many other febrile diseases.
Paroxysms (due to rupture and release of the parasite and metabolic products into the system), happen every 48-72 hours depending on the species.
There is a cold stage which leads to teeth chattering, shaking chills followed by a hot stage (fever) where temperatures may reach 106°F. Convulsions may develop particularly in children.
Untreated P. falciparum (the life-threatening species) can lead to severe malaria. Severe malaria is characterized by cerebral malaria, severe anemia, renal filure (black water fever), respiratory distress and bleeding disorders and shock.
Prompt treatment for falciparum malaria is essential cause death from cerebral complications may occur.
Cerebral malaria is the most severe neurological complication of infection with Plasmodium falciparum malaria. It is a clinical syndrome characterized by coma (This is thought to be causes by parasitized red blood cells (pRBCs) sequestered in cerebral micro-circulation) and asexual forms of the parasite on peripheral blood smears. Mortality is high and some surviving patients sustain brain injury which manifest as long-term neuro-cognitive impairments.
In adults, cerebral malaria is part of a multi-organ disease.
Already a member of the regime medical team had die, much probably from Ebola, not malaria. They have been sent there for propaganda purposes and profit. The Castroit regime had made clear that those that contract Ebola will not be allow to return to the island, they will be treated in Africa.First Cuban doctor tests positive for Ebola in Sierra Leone | News | DW.DE | 19.11.2014
A Cuban doctor treating Ebola patients in West Africa is to be flown to Geneva after testing positive for the disease. The diagnosis comes after a seventh Sierra Leonean doctor died of the virus.
The doctor, identified by Cuban state media as Felix Baez, is part of the 165-member medical team Cuba sent to Sierra Leone in October to help fight Ebola. He is the first Cuban to contract the deadly virus.
Baez is undergoing treatment in Africa, and is expected to be transferred to a special unit in Geneva at the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO), according to a statement from Cuba's Ministry of Public Health, cited by state media.
The internal medicine specialist came down with a fever on Sunday and was taken to the capital Freetown, where he was diagnosed with the virus the following day. He has not shown complications, and is being "tended to by a team of British professionals with experience in treating patients who have displayed the disease," the ministry's statement said. Cuban officials did not say how Baez caught the disease or release information about his whereabouts in Sierra Leone.
Cuba has sent at least 256 medical workers to complete six-month missions in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea - a move that drew praise from the international community. Cuba's doctors and nurses underwent up to three weeks of extensive training, with practice working in protective body suits, before being dispatched to the Ebola-hit region.
Seventh doctor dies in Sierra Leone
News of the Cuban doctor's infection emerged one day after Sierra Leone's Health Ministry confirmed it had lost its seventh doctor to the virus. According to news agency Reuters, more than 120 of the country's health personnel working in treatment centers have contracted the disease, which can only be spread by close contact with bodily fluids.
Dr. Moses Kargbo died Tuesday at the Hastings Ebola Treatment Center east of Freetown where he had been receiving treatment.
According to the latest estimates from the WHO, Ebola has killed 5,177 people, mostly in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
On Monday, US officials reported the death of Dr. Martin Salia, a US resident who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone and was evacuated to the US state of Nebraska for emergency treatment over the weekend.
Obama: 'stamp out the disease'
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Congress to approve his request for $6.2 billion (4.9 billion euros) in emergency spending to combat the spread of Ebola in West Africa and the US.
Ahead of a meeting with his Ebola response team, Obama said West Africa was "nowhere near out of the woods" in its fight against the virus, adding that it was important to "continue to push forward until we stamp out this disease entirely in that region. Until we do, there are threats of additional outbreaks and, given the nature of international travel, it means that everybody has some measure of risk."
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The Castroit regime made the “volunteers” signed a document that if they contracted the Ebola virus they would not be repatriated. They would be treated in an African hospital. In this specific case the World Health Organization sent the Cuban doctor for treatment to a Geneva hospital, and he was declared free of the virus. It is ironic that the Sierra Leone African doctors were not sent to Geneva for treatment by the WHO, and as a result 108 have died.
Why are "volunteers" in quote?
Wait so they agreed not to repatriate, but then this article states he is back home...
Ok. And the problem with this is????
Yeaaa... .Except they are working with the WHO not the "Castroist regime"...
Newsweek had gathered enough evidence to prove the Castroit tyrannical regime is engaged in the slave trade, selling doctors to the highest bidder.