Salud!
CUBAN HEALTH CARE DOCUMENTARY
Directed by Academy Award Nominee Connie Field
Co-Produced by Gail Reed
Showing one day only at Rondo Community Outreach Library, 461 North Dale (University and Dale), St. Paul.
Thursday, July 12, 6:30 PM
Free parking under library and free admission.
Metro Transit Lines #16, 50, 65 (Transit Station --612-373-3333)
Sponsored by Minnesota Cuba Committee
FIND OUT WHAT PUTS CUBA ON THE MAP IN THE QUEST FOR GLOBAL HEALTH
A Timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all.
Some 28,000 Cuban health professionals are serving in 68 countries.
¡Salud! Explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba.
¡Salud!
spans three continents to look at the philosophy and the health
professionals placing Cuba on the map in the worldwide movement to make
health care a global birthright.
A FILM ABOUT THE PRESSING HEALTH ISSUES THE WORLD FACES TODAY
Film opens in South Africa and travels to
Venezuela, to Honduras to Gambia. The Gambia's Minister of Health
stated: "Our infant mortality is down, life expectancy up. We wouldn't
be able to narrate this success without the help of the Cubans."
TRAINING HEALERS TO PROMOTE HEALTH, NOT SIMPLY TREAT DISEASE
THE
FILM VISITS Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine (LASM AND/OR ELAM)
now the largest medical school in the world and includes 12,000
low-income students from 27 countries—nearly 100 from US. The Deal:
Receive a free medical education in exchange for pledging to return to
poor communities in their own country when they graduate.
"¡Salud! is just the kind of film we want to
showcase in our festival." Ayuko Babu, Executive Director Pan African
Film Festival (PAFF), Los Angeles) on presenting "¡Salud! to the
Audience Choice Award.
""¡Salud!
is compelling, upbeat and moving, a great tool for learning the much
there is to learn from Cuba." Paul Farmer, MD, Partners in Health and
Harvard Medical School.
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