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St Vincent minister praises work of Cuban medical brigade Published on Monday, March 8, 2010 Email To Friend    Print Version (ACN) -- Douglas Slater, Minister of Public Health from St Vincent and the Grenadines on Friday praised the scientific level of the Cuban medical team now working in his country in the Vida a la Vida project for the disabled. While addressing participants in the parliamentary session, Slater spoke about the scientific, psychosocial and clinical studies carried out since March 1 by 38 Cuban voluntary workers for the benefit of the disabled in the neighboring nation. The official highlighted that this study has been favorably received by the population and its significance for the devising of governmental strategies for social attention, the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s web site reports. St Vincent and the Grenadines is the first country in the Caribbean to receive this project, in the results of which the University of the West Indies is very much interested. Slater said that the program has been approved by the Commission of Ethics in his country, an essential aspect before implementing a program of this magnitude. Cuban specialists have already made studies on the disabled in Venezuela and Nicaragua, and are currently carrying them out in Ecuador and Bolivia, under the auspices of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA).     Reads : 20 Back... Comments: No comments on this topic yet. Be the first one to submit a comment. Back... Send us your comments!   Send us your comments on this article for publication in our Readers' Forum or as a Letter to the Editor. All fields are required and in the interest of openness and transparency we will no longer accept anonymous submissions. We therefore request that all submissions include a name for publication, regardless of content. We will in special circumstances protect a writer's identity only after we have established good cause for anonymity, otherwise we will not be able to publish the submission. For your contribution to reach us, you must (a) provide a valid e-mail address and (b) click on the validation link that will be sent to the e-mail address you provide.  If the address is not valid or you don't click on the validation link, it will be a waste of your time typing your submission because we will never see it! Your Name: Your Email: (Validation required) Comments: Enter Validation Code *