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FROM
CUBA
Cuba doctors forbidden to stay at site of
convention
CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba,
November 22 (Abel Escobar Ramírez
/ www.cubanet.org) - Cuban doctors attending
an international medical convention at a
tourist facility in Ciego de Avila province
complain they were not allowed to stay at
the same hotels as foreign participants.
Instead, they were obliged to stay at nearby
guest houses where they say they were well
treated but not as well as foreign doctors
were at the tourist hotels where they stayed.
Under Cuban law, Cuban citizens are not
allowed to stay at hotels which cater to
foreign tourists.
The event in question was the XVI International
Congress of the Cuban Society of Orthopedics
and Trauma, held recently held at the Polo
Turístico Jardines del Rey in Ciego
de Ávila.
According to Cuban participants, registration
fees for the congress were 400 pesos, the
equivalent of two months salary for the
average Cuban worker.
Among the foreign participants at the Congress
was William Stetson, a member of the American
association of arthroscopic surgeons.
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