Cubans have also requested various journals in the Clinics of North America series, he says. While the US embargo with Cuba do not prohibit forwarding medical journals to Cuba, Quint says the nonprofit IAC has been hard-pressed to finance delivery across the US continent and then on to Cuba. On several occasions, the route has been long and circuitous. This need is particularly desperate outside Havana in the rural provinces. While the digital age has opened up new opportunities for sharing information, Cubans typically have a difficult time accessing the Internet because their computer systems are not quite up to speed.
Packages first go to a central receiving point.
Since venturing to Cuba for the first time as part of a public health study tour in 1978, Quint has been very impressed with how its health system is organized and delivered. Although a relatively poor country that lacks sufficient food and medicines, Cuba has the lowest infant mortality rate and the highest immunization rate in Latin America, Quint says.