Castro offers eye care for US poor

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FCF39BE2-A13D-4698-A958-A62F14862241.htm


Fidel Castro, the Cuban president, has offered free eye operations to impoverished Americans and asked the US government to let them travel to his country for treatment.

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Because travel to Cuba by most Americans is prohibited under US sanctions, Castro asked US authorities to give Americans official permission to travel to Cuba for the operations.

"We're ready to send an airplane to Florida to pick them up," Castro said. Cuba would foot the costs of flights, accommodation and the surgery, Castro said.

Cuba has all the equipment and specialised personnel considered among the best specialists in the world, he said. He asked if the US government would prohibit those people from travelling to the island and "sentence them to blindness".
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Cuba has, hands down, better health care for their people then we do.

thank you Castro for making the offer

[HEyHEY]

1. The man's got style

[Wilms]

2. This is great.

Castro and Chavez in a match to see who can do more for US poor.