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HAVANA, June 19 (Víctor M. Domínguez, Lux Info Press) - Six
Latin American youths who study in Cuba under government-granted scholarships
have contracted tuberculosis while there.
The six attend the Victoria de Girón medical school in Havana, and
are being treated at the showcase Hermanos Ameijeiras hospital there.
The Latin American students have separate dormitory facilities from their
Cuban counterparts, but share dining facilities with them, at least in the first
stage of their course.
Later, the foreign scholarship students are transferred to the International
School of Medicine in Baracoa, at the eastern end of the island, before being
sent to a university.
"Tuberculosis reappeared in Cuba in the 90s, primarily among the penal
population, children, and the malnourished, who are the most susceptible to the
disease," said Dr. Pedro Pablo Álvarez, an internal medicine
specialist.
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