<span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">TOM FAWTHROP</b> <a href="mailto:tomfawthrop@gmail.com">tomfawthrop@gmail.com</a><br><br></span>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #c0504d">A<span> </span>Eureka Films production : the Cuban Health system <span> </span></span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">How is it possible that a poor nation like Cuba, can achieve health indicators on a par with the world's richer nations? </span></div>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">In several fields of medical research - new vaccines, new therapies, and ground-breaking anti-cancer agents- this small Caribbean nation is challenging the pharmaceutical empires of the west.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">How is it possible that Cuba has achieved so much with so few resources? And that one of the world's poorer nations can offer to help the US-the world's richest-to cope with Hurricane Katrina? Cuba offered to send hundreds of doctors to New Orleans in 2005.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span> </span>At a time when public health systems are in crisis and a tide of privatisation of healthcare has gripped the globe, this documentary looks in depth at one health system that is swimming against the currents of corporate globalization.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">From Havana to Haiti, from Cape Verde to Venezuela, and 68 countries across the globe lives have been saved and public health systems strengthened
<span> </span>by Cuban medical missions.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">One of the batch of students from the USA studying in Cuba tells us in the film " They have Cuban doctors in so many countries but you never hear about." This unreported world is the subject of this film.
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Eureka Films production<span> </span>directed by Tom Fawthrop</span><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #c00000"> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">How is it possible that a small Caribbean nation can match and in some fields surpass western countries in the performance of their health system? In spite of the US trade embargo and many shortages of medicine,still infant mortality and longevity are on a par with the best health systems in Europe.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman">This documentary<span> </span>traces the development of the new health system from its beginnings after the 1959 Cuban revolution to the
present-day.Cuban doctors from all fields- primary health care and family doctors, medical researchers and the island's highly developed capacity for the production of<span> </span>some of the world's best vaccines,neurologists and eye-surgeons all tell their story.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman">But it is not only Cubans that benefit from a system that provides free and universal health access for everybody. Around 30,000 health personnel-doctors,nurses etc are serving in humanitarian missions abroad covering 68 countries – both long-term medical aid programmes in Haiti,
Mali.Gambiia, Guinea,East Timor,South Africa and the Solomon Islands. These figures also include emergency aid given to victims of natural diasasters –Tsunami and earthquakes in Pakistan and Indonesia.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Public health care systems have been generally under siege from the forces of globalisation.The private sector backed by the World Bank has expanded in the developing world,leaving qaulity healthcare unaffordable for the vast marjority.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman">This is the the story on one of the few nations that has defied the tide of privatisation and the logic that reduces
<span> </span>health and medicine to just another commodities to be traded in the market. </font></span></p>
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</span></p></span><span class="sg"> <br>TOM FAWTHROP<br>JOURNALIST<br>ASIA SPECIALIST <br> </span></div>