A group of Young people from the United States culminated their medical training in the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), in Cubain a qualified experience of “transformative” by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex).
The news was disseminated by official media as Latin press and the Cuban news agency (ACN)which highlight the ethical commitment to which these new health professionals graduate.
Although the total number of graduates was not specified, the official publication of the Minrex at the Cubaminrex.CU site included an image of ten American graduates and expressed a “sincere recognition” for both them and their families, for accompaniment throughout this training process.
ELAM was founded in 1999 in response to a humanitarian emergency caused by two hurricanes that devastated regions of Central America and the Caribbean.
ELAM formation
Promoted by Fidel Castro, This institution arose with the mission of training young people from impoverished communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and the United States with the aim of returning to serve as doctors in their places of origin.
“What was then a humanitarian emergency, gave rise to a durable project of hope,” the statement said.
Since then, ELAM has established itself as a reference in medical education with social vocationwhere students from more than twenty countries share classrooms, cultures, values and dreams.
The newly graduated will carry a medical training accompanied by an ethic “deeply solidary and transformative”, in a worldwide context where access to health care remains marked by structural inequalities, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said.
Despite the serious economic crisis facing the country, the Cuban government argues that this educational model is a sign that “another world is possible when life is put over profit.”
