Cuba has trained more than 80,000 doctors from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the United States, Pakistan and China in the last 50 years for free, according to a consultant of the Latin American School of Medicine, ELAM, in Havana. Cuba began awarding free scholarships to students from across the Global South in the 1960s, many of whom had been affected by conflict and war. Following the 1959 revolution, around 20,000 were granted free education in the country, many of them in the field of healthcare. Today, close to 10,000 students from 122 countries are currently enrolled in the school, all of them studying under free scholarships.
— source telesurtv.net