DR. HILDA MOLINA BECOMES MEMBER OF THE HONORARY BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF HUMAN RIGHTS (ISHR)

CUBA: DR. HILDA MOLINA BECOMES MEMBER OF THE HONORARY BOARD OF THE
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF HUMAN RIGHTS (ISHR)
2007-04-02.

Frankfurt am Main / Germany. (2nd April 2007) – The International
Society for Human Rights (ISHR) has elected the Cuban Dr. Hilda Molina
in its honorary board of directors on its annual meeting, that took
place on the 30th of March 2007 in Koenigstein/Germany. Dr. Molina is
representing the ISHR in Latin America and especially in her home
country Cuba.

The doctor and her destiny are hardly known in Germany. Only a few years
ago Dr. Hilda Molina was Chief neurosurgeon. In 1988 Dr. Molina founded
the International Center for Neurological Restoration in Cuba. She
became a leading figure in the development of Cuba's state run
health-system. Dr. Molina's center had a world wide reputation. She was
hailed in the official press in Cuba as a great scientist and
photographed repeatedly with Fidel Castro. Castro admired and respected
Dr. Molina's work and he appointed her to the Cuban National Assembly.

Already in her youth, Molina has been a convinced socialist and joined
the communist party of Cuba very early. Doubts about the system came up
in the early nineties during the so called "Periodo especial". Her
criticism focuses primarily on the Cuban state-run healthcare system and
she became a target of persecution by the government. In several
occasions Dr. Molina has said that "the government has turned my work
into a center for earning foreign currency". Since the regime needed
money, she was told to accommodate only well paying patients from
abroad. A so called "medical tourism" established itself.

But Hilda Molina refused the privileged treatment of well-off strangers,
while her own countrymen didn't get sufficient medical treatment. She
tried to take action against the Cuban authorities to abolish this
injustice. But her protest hasn't been successful. She lost her good
connection to Castro and the regime due to her commitment. 1994 she
resigned from her office as delegate in the Cuban Parliament as well as
from the Communist Party.

International Society for Human Rights
ISHR - German Section, Borsigallee 9,
60388 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Tel.: 0049-69-420108-0,
Fax: 0049-69-420108-34
e-mail: presse@ishr.org, www.ishr.org

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