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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Health
Farah Najjar

Why are Caribbean leaders fighting Trump to keep Cuban doctors?

Cuba has more than 24,000 doctors working in 56 countries, with the missions providing healthcare across the Caribbean [File: Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters]

Caribbean leaders have hit back at a threat issued by the United States government to cancel visas for anyone working with or supporting Cuban medical facilities, citing allegations of forced labour and claiming these missions “enrich the Cuban regime”.

Cuban medical missions, which provide doctors, nurses and other medical staff as well as medical facilities, are critical to healthcare systems in the Caribbean.

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