Cuba Experts Begin Disability Study in Bolivia

Geneticists, psychopedagogists, neurophysiologists and experts in other disciplines will work together with Bolivian and Venezuelan professionals and public university students of the Andean nation.

Minister of Health Ramiro Tapia said the collaborators would begin their work in Santa Cruz department and would continue in Oruro and La Paz, during the registration ceremony of the group, which took place in this city on Tuesday.

Tapia specified that the study would allow assessing and approaching a scientific diagnosis of Bolivian disabled people to offer them treatment and psycho-social assistance, as established in the new Political State Constitution.

The solidarity mission is named Moto Mendez, in homage to the revolutionary activist from Tarija Eustaquio Moto (manco) Mendez Arenas, who despite his physical disability fought against Spanish forces at the turn of 19th Century.