Cuba and the Covid-19 pandemic. (1st June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Oram, Bob
• Is Part Of: Theory & struggle. Volume 122(2021)
• Page Start: 118
• Page End: 131
• Publication Date: 2021-06-01
• Subjects: Covid-19 -- Cuba blockade -- public health -- vaccines; Communism -- Periodicals; Socialism -- Periodicals; Working class -- Periodicals; Labor movement -- Periodicals; 335.405
• DOI: 10.3828/ts.2021.12
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2057-0988

Abstract

Abstract : For the UK struggling to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, the experience of Cuba's Ministry of Public Health over the past six decades provides the clearest case for a single, universal health system constituting an underlying national grid dedicated to prevention and care; an abundance of health professionals, accessible everywhere; a world-renowned science and biotech capability; and an educated public schooled in public health. All this was achieved despite being under a vicious blockade by the United States for all of that time.