Pesigalam
Banned
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9311876/n...rina-aid-cuba-no-thanks-says-us/#.VteJBWf2Zpi
What would be the impact for both Cuba and USA if the American government had accepted the Cuban aid offer? How would the experience impact U.S. citizens and the Cuban volunteers?In separate Washington press briefings, both the White House and State Department spokesmen this week downplayed the Cuban government’s offer to send some 1,600 medics, field hospitals and 83 tons of medical supplies to ease the humanitarian disaster [in US following Hurricane Katrina].
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They [Cuba doctors] remain on stand-by, their bags packed. And while they wait at a Havana medical school that normally houses international scholarship students, the brigade has been brushing up on English skills, the epidemiology common to natural disasters, and the local history of Louisiana and Mississippi.
A colleague of Dr. Suchay, Dr. Delvis Marta Fernandez, 32, is frustrated that she and the other doctors find themselves lingering in Havana.
“Let’s get going,” she said. “This is not political. This is a humanitarian emergency. People are dying and they need our help.”