Cuba Announces Suspension of the Medical School Scholarship Program

[roody]

This is from Pastors for Peace, which administers admissions and scholarships for US students

On Monday, May 14, 2012, we received the sad news that Cuba has temporarily suspended its medical scholarship program at the Latin American School of Medicine due to economic constraints created in part by the U.S. government’s economic blockade against the island. This painful development has strengthened our resolve to fight to end the illegal and immoral U.S. blockade of Cuba!

IFCO has been the proud administrator of the scholarship program for U.S. students since 2001 and we remain grateful for the wonderful gift that the Cuban People has offered the world with its generous medical scholarship program.

To date the program has graduated 66 doctors from the U.S. who are now preparing for or are in residency at hospitals across the U.S. and nineteen new doctors from the U.S. will graduate this summer.
We know that these young doctors who received a world-class medical education in Cuba will make a real difference in the lives of families in underserved areas that lack the kind of medical care they deserve.

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http://ifconews.org/node/1214

[Judi Lynn]

1. It's so sad to hear this is happened, but can easily understand why.

How clearly some of us remember when the program was initiated. We remember reading articles from newspapers across the country, of scholarships going to worthy Native American students, inner city students in densely populated areas, to children of immigrant workers traveling from place to place, getting their education in various towns, and others.

The gifts to these students were beyond price, as they were worth everything to the students, to their families, and to the communities where they had lived, and to future communities ahead after their obligations to serve in their own neighborhoods were fulfilled.

The prize beyond compare, and 75 students whose lives, and the lives of others will be so much better because of it.

Hope we will live to see this economic war on Cuba rescinded, roody.

Thank you.

[naaman fletcher]

3. Was there not a blockade then, as well?

So what is different in Cuba between now and then that is the US's fault?

/am totally against the economic blockade

[Mika]

2. For US students.

Cuba continues training and scholarship programs for other nationalities.

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