Nicaragua's First Brigade of Doctors To Aid Remote Areas

[Cuba Solidarity]

Havana, August 7 (acn) A group of Nicaraguan undergraduate doctors attending medical school in Cuba are going back to their country to complete their sixth year training period treating people of extremely poor communities on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.

As reported by the website 'La voz del andinismo', this group of students from Havana's Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), will become Nicaragua's first brigade of doctors under the name of Vilma Espin, the late heroine of the Cuban Revolution.

Indigenous settlements in isolated communities which had been long neglected will benefit from the aid of the medical brigade which, in the words of Nicaraguan Ambassador to Cuba Luis Cabrera, will treat their humble compatriots.

These young students started their medical studies in the ELAM in 2001 as part of a project in the context of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) for regional integration. Now they will have the chance to graduate on the field, beside Cuban doctors in cooperation missions in their homeland.