Washington Bans Orthopedics Doctors from Attending Event in Cuba
 
CUBA, September 22, 2009. Cuban orthopedics expert Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras confirmed that the U.S. government did not allow US doctors to travel to the island to participate in an international congress on orthopedics that started yesterday in this eastern city of Cuba.

Alvarez Cambras, president of the event, told the press that some 30 American specialists had expressed their interest in attending the event but Washington denied them the permission to travel to Cuba.
Cambras, who is also the director of the Frank Pais Orthopedics Complex of Havana, said Washington’s stance is another demonstration that the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the U.S. against Cuba is still in place.

“I received a letter from them (the U.S. specialists) saying that they were very sad in their hearts because when they had everything set up, the American State Department and the Treasury Department banned them from traveling to Cuba,” the Cuban scientist told the press in the Congress.
Meanwhile, some 400 delegates are attending the event, 150 of them from other countries. (Cubaminrex- RHC)