A screening of the film Haiti’s Healthcare Reborn (22mins) with speakers focusing on Cuba’s response to the Haitian earthquake in January and its 10-year commitment to the United Nations rebuild the Haitian healthcare system from the ground up. At the time of the earthquake, Cuba already had 152 medical and education personnel working in the Haitian capital Port au Prince and was immediately treating the injured in a field hospital. Cuba has over 40,000 medical personnel operating in 103 countries, a major contribution from a developing country which is still subject to a crippling economic blockade by the United States.
Cuba’s Latin American army of young, idealistic and highly educated doctors is delivering a new future for Haiti
SPEAKERS
Dr David Hickey
(Beaumont Hospital and visiting professor of surgery at Havana University)
Maria Aleida del Riego
(ICAP-Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples)
VENUE: Liberty Hall, Dublin
DATE: Tuesday 15 June 2010
TIME: 6.30 – 8.00pm
ALL WELCOME – ADMISSION FREE
DONATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED IN SUPPORT THE CUBAN MEDICAL AID PROGRAM TO HAITI
