New Zealand extols Cuban medical solidarity

NEW ZEALAND: The successes of the health in Cuba and their contributions to the well-being of millions of human beings in the world were highlighted Saturday in the first day of a cycle of conferences that will be developed in the Irish Club of this capital.

The event will talk about diverse topics of the Cuban reality, it is organized as part of the program of celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Revolution.

The central exhibition in the opening date was in charge of Doctor Rita Nery Martinez, an official of the Cuban mission who said that her country closed last year with the lowest record in infant mortality of its history, 4.7 for a thousand born alive.

Martinez pointed out that the island now registers a 78 year-old life expectancy in men and 80 in women.

The specialist added that at the same time 40,000 doctors and professionals of the public health in her country save or help to improve the life of millions of people in 71 nations of Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa.

Even, they are working in China and in the region of the South Pacific, she added.

When answering questions from the attendants to the conference, Cuban Ambassador Jos‚ Luis Robaina remarked that those successes, universally recognized, are all a work of the Revolution and of the strategy designed by its leader, Fidel Castro.

They are based in a development model, based in the social justice and with great emphasis in the development of a culture of solidarity.

Wellington, Prensa Latina