Chavez condition

[lonewolf]

Cubas doctors are some of the best in the world, they`ve cured cancer there but the fda nuh waan unno fi kno dat.

They've cured cancer? Really? And they are keeping this little secret all to themselves?
Why not share it with the rest of the world?

Cuba can barely feed the masses, much less cure cancer. Modern medicine is leaps and bounds ahead of anything that a third world country can offer.

Lianete Pérez, 37, works as a medical assistant in the office of a pediatrician in Miami. A former anesthesiologist, Dr. Pérez longed to leave Cuba, arrived in 2002 and is studying to take the medical exams later this year. Unlike other doctors who resent having their skills tested years after medical school, she said she welcomed the chance to go back to the books.
“There are enormous differences between medicine in Cuba and in the United States,” she said. “I can’t tell you that Cuban doctors are not well trained, but I can tell you that the books we used were edited in 1962, and for me, coming here was like starting all over again.”
Aside from old books, Cuban medical students and doctors must contend with a lack of modern equipment and, often, of drugs and diagnostic tools taken for granted in developed countries. But many expatriate doctors say their dealings with patients in Cuba were more humane and less rushed than they are in the United States

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/health/04cuba.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[Wahalla]

so deh Jamaican government are aware of the impact of the change in Venezuelan leadership....

Chavez's Ill-Health Makes Petro-Caribe Pact Uncertain

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A section of Jamaica's oil refinery, Petrojam




The ill-health of Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez has sparked jitters among government officials here as the continuation of a concessionary oil-deal under the Petro-Caribe Agreement with Jamaica becomes uncertain in the event of his demise.

Chavez is said to be suffering from a severe lung infection following a fourth surgery in Cuba for cancer. He is to be sworn in for a third time as president on Thursday following his election last October, but it is unlikely that he will make the ceremony.

Energy Minister, Phillip Paulwell says the PetroCaribe arrangement, which was formed with Venzuela in 2005 under the PJ Patterson administration, has been very beneficial to the country.

Paulwell was speaking with The Gleaner/ Power 106 News Centrefollowing a church service organised by the Venezuelan embassy this morning at the Grace Missionary Church in St Andrew. The service, which centred on prayers for the recovery of the ailing Venezuelan president, was also attended by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.

At a Gleaner Editors’ Forum last year, the then financial secretary, Dr Wesley Hughes, estimated that the discontinuation of the PetroCaribe arrangement could result in a US$600 million per year impact on the country’s balance of payments.

Hughes was speaking against the background of President Chavez’s re-election in October.

Roughly two-thirds of the crude oil imported by Jamaica comes from Venezuela.

Under the agreement, Venezuela allows Jamaica and other selectCaribbean countries to purchase oil, requiring only a certain percentage of the cost upfront. The remaining percentage is paid over time under a special financing arrangement. A fund was also formulated under the agreement, which allows the island to treat, as loan proceeds, the funds under the PetroCaribe facility.

The loan attracts interest of one per cent.