Brazil: Pan-American Health Organization

Pan-American Health Organization: Ramona Rodriguez, 51, entered the office of the center-right Democratas party leadership in the lower chamber of Brazil's Congress on Tuesday afternoon and slept the night on a sofa, the official said. , according to Reuters. Under an agreement signed last year with Cuba through the Pan-American Health Organization, or the Cubans get only one fifth of the 10,000 reais $4,100 a month that Brazil pays each physician in the program. The rest goes to the Cuban state. A Cuban doctor working in Brazil has sought political asylum in the office of a conservative party complaining that Cuba's communist government takes too big a slice of her pay, a party official said on Wednesday. Rodriguez is one of 7,400 Cubans in Brazil who work in a program that hires foreign doctors to attend the sick in slums and remote rural locations unattended by Brazilian physicians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.