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NUEVA GERONA, September 24 (Carlos Serpa Maceira, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) -
At least nine medical students refused to graduate recently to evade
restrictions on emigration imposed by the Ministry of Public Health on health
professionals here.
Pedro Castellanos, an activist in Cienfuegos, central Cuba, said a Communist
Party official had called the manuever "an ideological deviation by a not
negligible group of young university students."
"The dean of the School of Medicine in Cienfuegos, María Luisa
Galenda, evaded the topic and allowed that she was forbidden to talk about it,"
said Castellanos.
Since June, 1999, the Ministry of Public Health enforces a five-year service
period as a condition to issue an exit permit for health care workers. In
practice, the workers are reassigned once they apply to leave, usually to less
desirable posts.
Castellanos said a medical professor had told him the nine students, far
from being an exception, represented a common occurrence.
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"Resolution 54
denies exit permits to medical professionals until they have performed 3 to 5
years of service in their profession after requesting permission to travel
abroad. This regulation normally applied to recent graduates. This regulation
was not published as part of the legal provisions, and may apply to other
professionals as well." / US Department of State
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silent protest / Luis Alberto Rivera / APLO
Three physicians
arrested near U. S. Naval Base at Guantánamo / Luis Alberto Rivera /
APLO
Health Professionals
Manage To Elude Edict Against Leaving / Dr. Sunset Nogueras
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