Cuba - Healthcare on film
WORKERS, SEPT 2007 ISSUE
EARLIER THIS summer the Royal College of Nursing and Unison hosted their first joint meeting on international health issues. The meeting, at the RCN headquarters, featured a short film, On the Slopes of the Himalayas, a documentary about the work of Cuba's medical brigade in Pakistan following the massive earthquake which devastated the country in October 2005.
After the screening, the audience was addressed by a special guest from Cuba, Dr Juan Carlos Dupuy Nuņez, leader of the 2,465-strong Cuban Pakistan medical brigade featured in the film.
The event was part of a nationwide tour to promote a Unison and Cuba Solidarity Campaign DVD and information pack, Made in Cuba. It uses film to bring to life how Cuba is delivering free healthcare and hope to some of the world's poorest people, despite 47 years of the US blockade.
RCN members were invited to see this for themselves on a Health Study Tour to Cuba which is being led by Unison executive member and Cuban health service specialist Bob Oram in November 2007. Details on this study tour and copies of the DVD Made in Cuba are available from the Cuba Solidarity Campaign on office@cuba-solidarity.org.uk or by calling 020 7263 6452.