No One Should Die From Ebola From Lack of Resources - World's Great Leader's Voice

        
          The Great Leader of the World Com. Fidel Castro, Former President of Cuba writes :                                                               
                   
           In an article titled "Heroes of our time" in the Cuban newspaper ''Granma'', Fidel Castro shared his opinions and appreciation toward Cuban efforts made to stop the Ebola virus outbreak.

              According to The Associated Press, the article has the former Cuban president's signature and is dated Oct. 2 at 8:47 p.m., but he said Granma asked "to publish it Saturday."

          In the article, Castro praised medical workers who went to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea to fight Ebola. On Wednesday, 165 Cuban doctors and nurses went to Sierra Leone, bringing the number of Cuban health workers in the three countries most affected by the virus to 461.
           "The delivery of the first medical brigade to Sierra Leone ... is an example of a country which can boast," Castro said in the article. "May the example of Cuban's march to Africa also be in the hearts and minds of other physicians in the world, especially those with more resources."
            The 88-year-old, who stepped down in 2006 due to illness, added that there should be enough world resources to keep everyone alive. "There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of care," Castro said.

Courtesy : Latin Post

REVOLUTIONARY VICTORY OF CUBA – 55 YEARS OF IDEAS AND TRUTH

                            On January 1, Cubans 2014 marked the 55th Anniversary of their revolution's victory. Fidel Castro's words spoken May 1, 2000 cropped up in President Raul Castro's speech in Santiago de Cuba. Revolution, they said, is "to believe deeply there's no force in the world capable of crushing the force of truth and ideas." Political talkers sometimes label ideas as utopian, But Cuba is still embracing utopia in year 55 of the triumph of its revolution. Cuba's real experiences and achievements demonstrate that big, utopian ideas can materialize. New realities add substance and serve to motivate. Fidel Castro's must have presumed listeners on May 1, 2000 were ready "to challenge powerful forces dominating inside and outside boundaries of society and the nation ... defend values in which we believe at the price of any sacrifice."
1. The 2013 Human Development Report of the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP), which considers the index of life expectancy, access to education and standard of living, ranks Cuba 59th in 187 countries, with high human development.  
2. The level of unemployment is below 5%, a figure that places it among the top 30 best performing countries in this field, over developed countries like the U.S., France and others.  
3. 54 percent of the running costs of the budgeted activity – 17 thousand 191 million pesos – is allocated to social services received by Cubans for free.
4. More than 400,000 Cubans who are self-employed, are protected by the social security system, with guarantees for retirement.
5. Cuba guarantees free and universal access to public health to everyone.  
6. Cuba this year reached the lowest infant mortality rate of 4.2 per thousand births for decades and remains below 5, which ranks the country among the best countries in the world. According to United Nations statistics on the average infant mortality rate in Cuba in the period of 1955 to 1960 was 69.86 per thousand live births.  
7. The maternal mortality rate is at 21 per hundred thousand, also the lowest among all nations. 8. The Cuban life expectancy at birth is 77.9 years figure that places Cuba among the most advanced in the world.
9. Cuba currently has over 56 600 doctors working in the country, which makes them one of the best in the world in number of physicians per capita.  
10. This year there have been 300 corneal transplants, 121 kidney, 17 liver, 14 heart – at no cost to patients.  
11. ”Operation Miracle” has led to more than 2 million surgery to restore vision in low-income people from 34 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa.  
12. The Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), located in Havana, graduated 9960 doctors from 58 countries in the 2005-2011 period.  
13. More than 40,000 Cuban health collaborators are involved in missions in more than 70 countries, bringing solidarity and humanism to places where inhabitants have never seen a doctor.  
14. Cuba is one of the few countries in the world that for half a century has banished illiteracy and despite the ongoing economic crisis and the U.S. aggression by its blockade, maintained for all its citizens free and universal access to education.  
15. The Education sector uses 27% of the running costs of the budgeted activity in the country, confirming the will of the Cuban government to continue to ensure the gains of the revolution, even in the midst of a complex economic situation.  
16. The Monitoring Report Education for All UNESCO (2011), recognizes Cuba with a high educational development, and ranks 14th in the world.
17. More than 2 thousand Cubans are assisting teachers in 43 countries.  
18. The number of graduates from the Cuban literacy program “Yes I can” is 8 million people in 29 countries and 1.3 million in the “yes I can follow.”  
19. Cuba remains at the top of world sport with 15th place in the London Olympics with 14 medals, despite the theft of talent by developed countries.  
20. Cuba ranks fifth among all countries in skill in the use of Information Technology and Communications (ICT), according to the 2012 report of the International Telecommunication Union.
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Fidel Castro & Jyoti Basu among those honoured by Bangladesh....!

        

         Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro,  former British Prime Minister Lord Harold Wilson; and former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu were among the 69 ‘foreign friends’ honoured by Bangladesh on Sunday for their contribution to the country’s liberation war in 1971.

         This is the sixth phase of the awards, given out to ‘foreign friends’, a process that began during the current government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

          Friends from Cuba, United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Japan, the United States, Australia and Sweden have been awarded in two categories — ‘Friends of Liberation War Honour’ and ‘Liberation War Honour’.

       Fidel Castro and Harold Wilson have been awarded ‘Liberation War Honour’. Representatives of Mr. Castro and two-time British Prime Minister Mr. Wilson received the honours. Jyoti Basu has been awarded ‘Friends of Liberation War Honour’.

        The highest honour was awarded to former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in July 25 last year. Her daughter-in-law Sonia Gandhi accepted the honour on her behalf.  Indian President Pranab Mukherjee was awarded ‘Liberation War Honour’ on March 5 this year.

                 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presented them with the citations and the awards in a ceremony at the capital’s Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on Sunday.

          Ten prominent Pakistani nationals were honoured this time. They included: Begum Naseem Akhtar, Dr. Iqbal Ahmed, Mir Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, all politicians; Zafar Malik, a lawyer; Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a poet; and Begum Tahira Mazhar Ali, Human rights activist among others. Human rights activist Asma Jahangir, daughter of former politician and civil servant Malik Ghulam Jilani and journalist Hamid Mir, son of Waris Mir, another journalist, received the awards on behalf of their fathers.

          Several prominent Indian military and civil personalities, including Lt. Gen. Jagjit Singh Aurora; Lt Gen. Sagat Singh; Vice Admiral Swaraj Prakash; Major General Antony Harold Edward Michigan received ‘friends of liberation war awards’ this time.

          So far, 206 individuals and organisations have been given the honour for their contributions to Bangladesh’s liberation war.

courtesy : The Hindu