{"id":388013,"date":"2018-12-06T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cubas-first-military-doctors-part-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T12:36:10","slug":"cubas-first-military-doctors-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cubas-first-military-doctors-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba\u2019s First Military Doctors (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/11\/cubas-first-military-doctors-part-1\/\">Part 1<\/a> of this article addressed the need for Cuba\u2019s participation in conflicts in Zaire, the Congo and Guinea-Bissau during the 1960s to remain concealed for over three decades. It covered the background to the struggles, what Cubans found in Africa, the role of race relations in Cuba\u2019s campaigns, and the recruitment of doctors. Part 2 explores the working conditions of revolutionary military doctors, physical and emotional consequences on participating physicians, interactions with African civilians, Cuba\u2019s first large medical scholarship program, the first mass vaccination effort in Africa, and how Cuba\u2019s military and medical efforts affected Africa.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Military Doctors at Work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physicians found working conditions to be quite different from Cuban polyclinics.\u00a0 It was very clear to Virgilio Camacho that \u201calthough I was a doctor, I was armed because at any moment I might have to participate in combat.\u201d<sup><\/sup> The Cuban doctors practiced in small groups.\u00a0 In the Congo, the group of Rodrigo \u00c1lvarez included a surgeon, an orthopedic, and two pediatricians.\u00a0 Later, they were joined by an anesthesiologist nurse and dentists.<sup><\/sup> In 1966, Domingo D\u00edaz traveled toward Guinea-Bissau as 1 of 9 physicians.\u00a0 Once there, he was assigned to Saar\u00e1 in the northern region where there were \u201cthe only three doctors and there were no Cuban nurses.\u201d\u00a0 They worked closely with several young Guineans and trained them as nurses.<sup><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Since the Cuban staff rotated and PAIGC policy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/12\/cubas-first-military-doctors-part-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Part 1 of this article addressed the need for Cuba\u2019s participation in conflicts in Zaire, the Congo and Guinea-Bissau during the 1960s to remain concealed for over three decades. It covered the background to the struggles, what Cubans found in Africa, the role of race relations in Cuba\u2019s campaigns, and the recruitment of doctors. Part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}