US policies hamper scientific cooperation

Cuba: US policy towards Cuba hampers scientific collaboration to Cuba for the 20th International Congress of the Cuban Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology, the Director of the Frank Pais internacional Orthopedics and Scientific Complex in Havana Dr. Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras assured.

According to the information received, US delegates invited to participate in this Congress, scheduled for Sept. 21-26 in the eastern province of Granma, do not count yet with permission from the State Department to travel to Cuba, Alvarez Cambras, President of the organizing committee told Cuban News Agency.

He added that prohibition shows the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by US to Cuba is still in force, and regretted the absence of US colleagues interested in attending the scientific event to be held in Bayamo, Granma, one of Cuba's most eastern province Alvarez Cambras said some 400 delegates from several countries will attend the meeting; some 150 of them are from Mexico, Spain, Canada, Japan, Argentina, Russia, France, Guatemala, Germany, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Yemen and Honduras.

He added that the event will include a commercial exhibition with the participation of almost 20 nations, with six Cuban companies and 12 from abroad in areas of Sierra Maestra Hotel, main premise of the event.

During the forum, Cuba will also present its latest advances in the introduction of elbow and shoulder prostheses, sports medicine and Traumatology, and spine surgeries.

Havana, Prensa Latina