Recent World Health Organization data put Cuba’s health indicators, such as life expectancy and infant mortality, in line with the US and Canada. In addition, Cuba has offered free – that is, the cost is borne by the Cuban people – medical scholarships to thousands of students from across the world on the condition that they return and serve the poor in their own countries. As of 2014, over 23,000 students from eighty-three countries had graduated from the ELAM campus (Cuba’s international medical school) since 2005. Cuban healthcare workers are often among the first responders in major global
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