Likewise, Congressmen from the South have visited Cuba in order to get help with improving the health care. Once congressman from a Southern county pointed out to Fidel that his county did not have a single doctor and in response, Castro started a scholarship program for US students to go to Cuba in order to study Medicine and then to come back and work in rural or inner-city America

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