CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba, November 22 (Abel Escobar Ramírez / www.cubanet.org) - Cuban doctors attending an international medical convention at a tourist facility in Ciego de Avila province complain they were not allowed to stay at the same hotels as foreign participants.
Instead, they were obliged to stay at nearby guest houses where they say they were well treated but not as well as foreign doctors were at the tourist hotels where they stayed.
Under Cuban law, Cuban citizens are not allowed to stay at hotels which cater to foreign tourists.
The event in question was the XVI International Congress of the Cuban Society of Orthopedics and Trauma, held recently held at the Polo Turístico Jardines del Rey in Ciego de Ávila.
According to Cuban participants, registration fees for the congress were 400 pesos, the equivalent of two months salary for the average Cuban worker.
Among the foreign participants at the Congress was William Stetson, a member of the American association of arthroscopic surgeons.
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