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Cuban Medical Brigade gets ready for Caribbean mission Published on Monday, February 22, 2010 Email To Friend    Print Version (ACN) -- The Cuban medical brigade that will carry out genetic studies in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is getting ready for this task. The brigade, which will leave on February 24 and which is made up by 36 experts in genetics, psychology, computing and statistics, among other specialties, met on Friday with Cuban Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer. During the meeting, Balaguer pointed out that these men and women represent the solidarity of the Cuban Revolution with paople who have never received this type of specialized treatment. With their work, and with this system of international health cooperation that has been present since 1963 in over 100 countries, he added, they’ll contribute to increase the quality of life of thousands of patients and their relatives. Juan Miguel Perez, a Master of Genetic Advice and a member of the brigade, told ACN that the main task of this psycho-social, pedagogical, clinical and genetic study is to identify people with disabilities, in order to carry out more accurate research works and medical consultations. . The specialist, who was part of the Manuela Espejo Mission now performing a similar task in Ecuador, underlined that Cuba was the first country where this research work was made, now extended, in various stages, to Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua.   Reads : 37 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 *