Uruguayan Medical Students to Cuba
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- International
- South America
- Health and Medicine
- 02 / 24 / 2008
In a meeting with Cuban Ambassador to Montevideo Marielena Ruiz Capote, Uruguayan young people are aware of the good living and study conditions in the school.
ELAM receives nearly 10,000 students from 30 countries at present, for free.
Ruiz Capote talked to the future Uruguayan students in Cuba about the study programs and their combination with the work of the public health installations, sports and other activities.
Several mothers of the Uruguayan youth from other years also participated in the meeting, and gave the future students useful advice.
ELAM was created in 1999 by initiative of Cuban President Fidel Castro to contribute to the formation of doctors and specialists from other countries of the region, after the disasters caused by Hurricanes George and Mitch in Central America and the Caribbean in 1998.
Up to now, almost 5,000 young people have graduated from ELAM, selected from families with limited economic resources.
Source Prensa Latina
ELAM receives nearly 10,000 students from 30 countries at present, for free.
Ruiz Capote talked to the future Uruguayan students in Cuba about the study programs and their combination with the work of the public health installations, sports and other activities.
Several mothers of the Uruguayan youth from other years also participated in the meeting, and gave the future students useful advice.
ELAM was created in 1999 by initiative of Cuban President Fidel Castro to contribute to the formation of doctors and specialists from other countries of the region, after the disasters caused by Hurricanes George and Mitch in Central America and the Caribbean in 1998.
Up to now, almost 5,000 young people have graduated from ELAM, selected from families with limited economic resources.
Source Prensa Latina
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