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Sandinista government makes education and health
care free again
MANAGUA, January 17.— The
re-establishment of free education and health care
services, a campaign promise made by newly-elected
President Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National
Liberation Front, is beginning to go into effect,
according to Prensa Latina.
The new minister of education,
Miguel de Castilla, stated on Wednesday, January 17,
that public school authorities were no longer
permitted to charge students for enrollment, monthly
fees, school materials or other supplies.
And in another measure with a
far-reaching social impact, the new health minister
announced that from now, private medical services
were being eliminated from the country’s public
hospitals. The minister said that patients would no
longer have to pay for medicine, surgery or clinical
tests carried out in state health facilities.
(Translated by Granma International)
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