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Solidarity without Borders, Inc., Florida International Medical Association (FIMA), Miami Medical Team Foundation, American Board of Surgical Assistants (ABSA), Physician Asociation of clinics, Hospitals & Anexs (PACHA) and the Unión de Médicos Cubanos Libres en el Exilio (UMCLE) unite to create the
Foreign Medical Program (FMP) .
The main objective of this program consists of a proposal to the state legislature of Florida, to change the requirements for the renewal exam to exercise medical practice
in our state.
This way we will achieve that many professionals of high qualification and great human sense of their profession, can exercise their professions in service of our community that needs it so much.
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The process to confirm the licenses of MD at the present time, consists of three exams of a high level of complexity and cost from $800.00 to $1200.00, each exam. On the other hand, for foreign doctors it is requested, to approve them, a higher evaluation rank than that of graduates in Universities in North America.
After passing these exams, foreign doctors have to complete a three year residence period, which is never in Florida and, in many cases, the applicant has to wait months and years to be called by a hospital or medical institution that receives them as resident.
The proposal will be presented before the state legislature of the Florida and it consists on reforming the process for the exams, reducing it to a single exam with a level of Standard complexity, a cost that doesn't exceed $500.00 and only a year of work under the supervision of an MD of Florida.
The doctors who graduate in this program have to work in community plans dedicated to the population's humble sectors, developed by the state or federal government by a period of no less than two years.
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Organizations that collaborate in the Foreing Medical Program.
Solidarity without Borders, Inc. develops several humanitarian programs , and works together with diverse organizations and institutions to achieve success for all projects..
The following organizations participate and collaborate on the Foreing Medical Program (FMP):
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Miami Medical Team Foundation.
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Florida International Medical Association (FIMA),
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Physician Asociation of clinics, Hospitals & Anexs (PACHA).
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Unión de Médicos Cubanos Libres en el Exilio (UMCLE)
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American Board of Surgical Assistants ( ABSA).
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The Cuban regime routinely sends tens of thousands of medical personnel abroad on
mandatory “internationalist” missions.
In return it wins
political favor and receives millions in hard currency. These
Cuban doctors and other medical
professionals in turn, are forced to leave their families behind and paid slave
wages for their labor. While Cuba continues
to send thousands of its skilled doctors oversees, at home Cubans continue to
suffer dire shortages in medicine and medical attention.
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Inaugurated in May of 2003, Barrio Adentro is
a “partnership” between the Cuban
and Venezuelan regimes to provide
Cuban medical personnel for the use of the Venezuelan Government. In exchange for the doctors, Cuba received oil from Venezuelaat
prices way below market value. As a
result, today, there are more than 15,000 Cuban medical personnel living and working in Venezuela at the behest of the Cuban regime.
Barrio Afuera is a project of Solidarity Without Borders that exists in order to assist
those doctors wanting to escape their forced “assignment” and facilitate the
arrival of those doctors into the United States,
in accordance with United
States law.
We assist in:
Providing
a safe haven for Cuban doctors wishing to defect.
Emotional
and psychological support for the defectors and their families.
Legal
assistance and guidance'
Facilitation
of meetings with third country consulates or embassies.
Humanitarian
aid as needed.
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Health Experts Leadership Providers (HELP) is organized as a
program of Solidaridad Sin Fronteras, Inc., a not for profit corporation, it is
made up of 2,427 healthcare professionals, approximately over 1,500 are medical
doctors the majority of the membership are of Cuban-American origin.
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The fundamental mission of HELP is to offer professional medical assistance to all of those that need it, and not taking into account the beneficiary’s race, sex, nationality, religious or political beliefs, in addition our services are without any cost to those we offer them.
We strive to bring immediate medical assistance to any scenario, whether it be local or international, when
we determine that our services are required in emergency situations which may be
as a result of Nature or man-made catastrophe.
We aim to create health programs, on
the local, national, and international levels, these will hopefully contribute
to alleviate the great needs and grave problems which the World faces in a
cyclical manner.
We will aim to supervise and to guarantee that our
medical care will always be utilized for purely humanitarian ends and never as
an instrument for enrichment, or for political manipulation, or as a weapon of
war; and that never our medical assistance will be used to harm in any manner
any human being, any group of people or any nation.
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Independent Cuban Health Program
SSF is a not-for-profit organization whose membership is made-up of hundreds recently arrived health
professionals native of Cuba,
while even some of our members are still inside Cuba. SSF is
therefore unique in the sense that our personnel is highly
trained, dedicated and current as to the actual situation of Cuba is
concerned.
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Due to the above, SSF, has formulated aplan that it has the support of our professionals, both inside and outside
of Cuba,
to help re-establish the Civil Society in our Island;
the Cuban people need the development of social programs that can offer themunder the current circumstances and during a period of transition, medical
solutions and services as an alternative to those offered by the government,
and in this manner rescuing the traditional institutions that have
disappeared due to the sociopolitical system currently present
in Cuba,
at the same time we aim to create the incentive to establish and
develop new institutions and independent services to those from the
State Government Ministries, all of these will help to constitute the true
base for the Civil Society.
Because of the absolute misery by wich
the Cuban Government has immersed its people, they are highly unlikely to
provide the leadership required for a political reform that will be
conductive to its complete emancipation, therefore, and only through alternative
social programs to those of the State can we really show them where the
real solutions to the current problems are and rescue the social
conscience to re-establish the true and definitive Civil Society inside Cuba
We also like to point out that under the
current Socialist Constitution it is established that medical doctors are
permitted to work as such in an independent manner from the State under
the stipulation that they cannot charge any fees for their services, the
doctors that will work in this project as volunteers, will be doing so
without violating the current cuban laws.
In order to develop and make this a
viable project, SSF, counts with the support of over 30 health professionals
inside Cuba,
these are members who are committed to assist the people as
volunteers.
These professionals inside Cuba are
supplied on a systematic manner by SSF, they receive medical supplies, medical
literature and other medical media actualization packets; in this manner
they can offer to the Cuban people medical services on a primary
alternative level to those of the State, and as it develops it will gain increasing
acceptance by those on the general population.
We feel certain that in the manner that
this program advances it will motivate dozens and even hundreds of
additional professionals to add their efforts , and thus reaching a truly
national program.
The Cuban People for over 50 years has
been isolated from the World in which we live and has been lied to with
false promises, in order to really believe in the future we need more than
words, to see and to touch at the very least a "preview" of what
could be and could offer them a truly Civil Society.
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