Physicians Graduated in Cuba to Counteract Medical Strike in Bolivia

La Paz, Mar 29. – The Departmental Health Service (Sedes) of Cochabamba on Thursday plans to convene Bolivian physicians who graduated in Cuba recently to assist patients in the city's urban areas, where public hospitals face an indefinite medical strike.

The Sedes is determined to call on the doctors who graduated on Saturday at La Coronilla Coliseum and who studied in Cuba to assist more than one million citizens in the four zones of the city.

"The Bolivian physicians who have graduated should to go to the rural area, but with that indefinite strike, we will try to guarantee medical care with them," Sedes Director Guido Sanchez stated.

Some 679 physicians from all over the country graduated recently, and the Sedes in Cochabamba expects that those from the department will assist people from the municipalities of Cercado, Quillacollo, Sacaba, and Punata.

Sanchez recalled that Cochabamba only has 30 medical centers, so two physicians trained in Cuba will be sent to each of them.(Prensa Latina)