IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Health as a first priority

Socialist Challenge No. 140, 27 March 1980 · p. 12 of the scan · 178 words

The scan: sc-n140-mar-27-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

training of 1978; SINCE coming to power in Government of National Reconstruction (GRN) has implemented a radical programme of Health care The new Ministry of Health has: • Vaccinated two thirds of the entire population against polio, tetanus, diptheria, measles and other illnesses; * Fumigated some 24,548 houses against the everpresent danger of malaria; * Despatched 25 medical brigades to attend to sugar cane and coffee plantation workers; * Created a special education programme of nine courses for auxiliaries in nursing, examinations, anaesthesia and basic sanitation; * Installed 4,200 new latrines, twice the number for the whole * Made free all medical prescriptions;

Moreover, plans are already underway to reconstruct the hospitals destroyed by Somoza during the civil war. Work has also begun on the building of a National Childrens' Hospital and five clinics, with plans to build a further 150 clinics in the near future.

July last year, the laboratory cost S 5,141,986 18,100 2,800 3,218 54,000 4,860 6,800 36,900 783,000 20,0 pamphlet Past, Present and Future:

aim of issuing an urgent national appeal for

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