{"id":6567,"date":"2022-07-05T22:43:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T22:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2022-07-05T22:43:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T22:43:55","slug":"meet-the-u-s-students-studying-medicine-for-free-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/meet-the-u-s-students-studying-medicine-for-free-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the U.S. Students Studying Medicine For Free in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BT\u2019s Rania Khalek paid a visit to the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, also known as ELAM. Cuba\u2019s socialist government foots the bill for students, who come from all over the world to study medicine for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h7g2T3BWg9E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Break through news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BT\u2019s Rania Khalek paid a visit to the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, also known as ELAM. Cuba\u2019s socialist government foots the bill<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/meet-the-u-s-students-studying-medicine-for-free-in-cuba\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":6568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1710,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/uns-website-highlights-medical-students-efforts-in-cuba\/","url_meta":{"origin":6567,"position":0},"title":"UN\u2019s website highlights medical students\u2019 efforts in Cuba","author":"Editorial Team","date":"May 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"United Nations.- The story of two Sahrawis girls who study medicine in Cuba, and together with Cuban health professionals, help fight the new Covid-19 pandemic, are the headlines on the UN\u00b4s news website. 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