Haiti: FoxNews lies about Cuba’s role - Democratic Underground

Haiti: FoxNews lies about Cuba’s role - Democratic Underground
Haiti: FoxNews lies about Cuba’s role
Tony Iltis
24 January 2010

A January 13, Rupert Murdoch's US network FoxNews claimed that while the US “was leading international relief effort in Haiti“, Cuba was “conspicuously absent from the roster of helping hands”.

The opposite is the case. At the time the earthquake struck, Cuba already had 344 of them doctors and paramedics working in Haiti. Also, in the past 12 years 450 young Haitians have graduated as doctors from Cuban colleges, free of charge.

From January 13 further teams of Cuban health workers, accompanied by Haitian medical students studying in Cuba, began arriving, with medical supplies.

A January 12 Granma article said that, within a week of the earthquake, “Cuban doctors in the Haitian capital 13,418 consultancies, with 1,078 operations, more than 550 of them considered major surgery. The Cuban doctors have also assisted 38 births.”

Read more: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2010/823/42360