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Nobel Prize for Cuban doctors long overdue

THERE are very few people the world today who don’t do things for money or personal gain, but for the joy of saving someone’s life and reaching those who need help the most. Ordinarily such selflessness belongs to those in the realm of angels, but from personal experience I have seen such human beings working here in our own country.

They are in our far-flung rural areas, helping the poorest of our people for little financial gain. They live in our communities, learn our local languages, work on the front lines with our Covidpositive patients, all the while leaving their own young children 12 000km away in order to be here for as long as South

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