Swimming against the tide
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A Eureka Films production : the Cuban Health system. Produced & directed by Tom Fawthrop
How is it possible that a poor nation like Cuba, can achieve health indicators on a par with the world’s richer nations?
In several fields of medical research - new vaccines, new therapies, and ground-breaking anti-cancer agents- this small Caribbean nation is challenging the pharmaceutical empires of the west.
How is it possible that Cuba has achieved so much with so few resources? And that one of the world’s poorer nations can offer to help the US-the world’s richest-to cope with Hurricane Katrina? Cuba offered to send hundreds of doctors to New Orleans in 2005.
At a time when public health systems are in crisis and a tide of privatisation of healthcare has gripped the globe, this documentary looks in depth at one health system that is swimming against the currents of corporate globalization.
From Havana to Haiti, from Cape Verde to Venezuela, and 68 countries across the globe lives have been saved and public health systems strengthened by Cuban medical missions.
One of the batch of students from the USA studying in Cuba tells us in the film “ They have Cuban doctors in so many countries but you never hear about.” This unreported world is the subject of this film.
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