In education, our country has the highest rates of literacy
in Latin America with an average education of nine grades. There is not one single child
that does not attend school. Year after year, the number of teachers and professors,
researchers and doctors grows, as well as the number of professionals
of university level. In 1993, the worst year of the economic crisis, the budget allocated
for education was 1,384 million pesos.
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To be educated is the only way to be free. José Martí. |
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Regarding sports, Cuba has placed
itself among the ten top countries in the world ranking.
A special word deserves the scientific-technical development
obtained that has become a vital factor for the survival of the country and of the
Revolution.
Important scientific research institutions had been created, for
example, the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, the
National Center for Scientific Research, the center for child cardiac surgery of the
William Soler Pediatric Hospital (the largest in the world), the Center for Immunology
Research and the Center for Neurology Transplants and Regeneration of the Nervous System. |
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Cuba has achieved a high scientific-research level. |
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Expression of this development is also the creation of a
medical team specialized in magnetic resonance, of Evalimage a thermograph system for
visualization and analysis of images and the Cuban surgical knife with the use of laser.
Cuban doctors in Cuban hospitals make kidney, liver heart and heart-lung transplants. We
have also made significant contributions to medicine, like the vaccine against meningitis,
Cuban white-cell alpha interferon, the discovery of a substance that cures vitiligo, the
obtention of epidermis growth factor, and others.
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