>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:35:52 -0500 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: FIRST DOCTOR MEDICAL AIRLIFT TO CUBA > > >FIRST DOCTOR MEDICAL AIRLIFT TO CUBA > > >source: Anthony Kirkpatrick, M.D., Ph.D. akirkpat @ com1.med.usf.edu > >For immediate release: November 18, 2000 > >For further information contact: > >Miriam and Raul Salvi: 305-223-4292 or 305-495-2840 (cell phone) >Frank Manitzas: 305-665-1193 >Anthony Kirkpatrick, M.D., Ph.D. 813-390-8690 (cell phone) > >FIRST DOCTOR MEDICAL AIRLIFT TO CUBA > >Thanksgiving Day, November 23, will mark a historic event in U.S.-Cuba >relations. For the first time, U.S. medical doctors will lawfully fly to >Cuba using their private aircraft loaded with over $1 million in medical >donations. These flights will carry medicines, state-of-the-art surgical >instruments and computers for Cuba's health system. The doctors are carrying >out this humanitarian mission because the United States Government blocks >the sale of many critical medicines desperately needed by the Cuban people >and it also seriously impedes the shipment of medical donations. > >November 23 also marks another historical event. It is the first-year >anniversary that the little Cuban boy Elian was rescued from the Florida >Straits. > >A news conference will be held at 12 noon at Miami International Airport on >Wednesday, November 22 at the address below. One of the pilots, Dr. Anthony >Kirkpatrick, will be available to answer questions about his new >organization called CUBA-USA Medical Airlift. There are two private aircraft >licensed by the United States Government to make multiple round trips, with >the first flight scheduled to arrive in Havana at 12 noon on Thanksgiving >Day. > >The medicines and surgical instruments will be distributed by the Pan >American Health Organization (PAHO). A physician representing PAHO for Latin >America will be flying with the doctors to Havana. Dr. Jose Teruel is an >expert on Cuba's health care system. > >NEWS CONFERENCE on First Doctor Medical Airlift to Cuba > >November 22, 2000 - 12 noon > >at SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT INC., >Miami International Airport, 3551 NW 59th Avenue >(Located at north side of Miami International Airport) >Phone: 305-526-6344 > > >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >================================================================= > >nytcari-11.20.00-21:35:23-2308 > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
