Free health
April 28, 2022. No. 228
I am not entirely clear what it will be like in other countries, but I will tell you what the health system is like in mine.
In Cuba, education and health are completely free.
In the case of education from an early age, children have the right to study and everything for free, even until graduating from university years later, if they manage to pass the entrance exams. In the universities, they are even paid a monthly stipend so that they supply some basic needs during the 4 or 5 years of their studies.
We are going to focus on health, which is the subject of the article as such. There is no private or public health, only health. When students are in 12th grade, they can take the entrance exams to opt for a Medicine career if they wish, and if they pass, in addition to being granted by capacity and ranking, then they begin to study medicine.
There are Family Medical Offices, which are the closest to the family in every way. These reside in the same community and include first aid. There are polyclinics that are already more specialized and with a much higher level of care and obviously more medical and nursing staff. Then, finally, obviously, the hospitals, some of which are specialized in different aspects of health: Neurology, orthopedics, general aspects, etc.
You can go to a simple consultation, even enter the hospital for treatment, or a more complex operation whatever its nature, all this for FREE.
For a long time, the Cuban Revolution has opted for health and the training of doctors and nurses. The "Henry Reeve" brigade, named after an American doctor who fought in our wars of independence, has been doing its internationalist work in other parts of the world for a long time. They have saved thousands of lives over the years and above all by serving the most disadvantaged in other countries, those who do not have enough money to pay for the most basic thing: a consultation with a doctor.
A simple "Thank you" is all you need. You do not need health plans or have extra money to be operated. The conditions are always about being the best and they strive to make it so.
Free health is one of the main achievements of this revolution without a doubt.
Tell me, in your country how is it?
What a nice healthcare system you have in your place. Nice to know that in other part of the world there is such that value much the health of the people by giving them free services.Hoping someday ours will be like that too.