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"A Cuban Success Story"

Since 1985, Cuban chemists and physicians have carried out the most extensive laboratory and clinical studies of medical ozone in the world, making Cuba the leader in researching the medical benefits of ozone therapy. Despite severely limited resources due to the U.S. sponsored trade embargo and the elimination of economic aid from the former Soviet Union, over the past nine years, Cuban scientists have accumulated an impressive amount of scientific and clinical data about medical ozone, and have reported their findings at both regional and international medical conferences. Patients from all over Latin America are traveling to Cuban hospitals for ozone therapy to treat a wide variety of disorders that are not being cured through traditional medical therapy. Americans are going as well, though it is in defiance of the trade embargo, which severely restricts the ability of U.S. citizens to have the opportunity to legally take advantage of the Cuban's expertise in ozone therapy, which is largely ignored by the mainstream media and is suppressed by the United States medical establishment.

Ozone In Medicine

Ozone is an elemental form of oxygen occurring naturally in the Earth's atmosphere. It is created in nature when ultraviolet energy causes oxygen atoms to temporarily recombine in groups of three. Like hydrogen peroxide, ozone is a well-known oxidizer, with strong virucidal, bactericidal, and fungicidal properties. Perhaps the best-known use of ozone is the purification of municipal water supplies: a small amount of ozone is added to oxygen and bubbled through the drinking water. Not only does it kill viruses and bacteria, but it removes the microorganisms that cause bad taste and odor in the water as well. Today, over a thousand cities around the world use ozone to purify their drinking supplies. In industry, ozone is used to oxidize phenolics (a poisonous compound of methanol and benzene), pesticides, detergents, chemical manufacturing wastes and aromatic (smelly) compounds. Ozone accomplishes these tasks more rapidly and effectively that chlorine , yet without its harmful residues.

The primary value of medical ozone is its bacterial, virucidal, and fungicidal properties. It is useful in wound disinfection and cleaning, and has the ability to enhance blood circulation. This improves the delivery and cleaning, and has the ability to enhance blood circulation. This improves the delivery of oxygen to hypoxic tissues, as well as reactivating the oxygen metabolism of cells. According to a paper published by the National Center for Scientific Research (CENIC), which coordinates ozone research in Cuba, the direct and indirect effects of ozone on oxygen metabolism involve the following processes:

1. Ozone changes the flow properties of the blood. The "pile of coins" erythrocyte formation, typical of arterials occlusion disease is reversed in ozone/oxygen therapy through changes in the electric charge of the erythrocyte membrane. At the same time, the flexibility and plasticity of the erythrocytes is increased, thus improving the rheological properties of he blood and the transport of oxygen to the cells and tissues.

2. A significant increase in the quantity of deoxygenating substances facilitates the release of oxygen from hemoglobin. This is of particular importance to diabetics.

3. An increase in the glycolysis rate.

4. Activation of the enzymes participating in peroxide or oxygen radical scavenging. The three most important of these enzymes are glutathione peroxidase, catalase, and superoxide dimutase.

5. Activation of the mitochondrial respiratory chain.

Research In Medical Ozone

Since the end of World War II, literally hundreds of laboratory and clinical studies in the medical uses of ozone have been done, primarily in Europe, and their findings have been published in a variety of scientific and medical journals. In countries like the United States, where large drug companies are directly or indirectly involved in all medical research and lobby to influence governmental policy, there is little interest in researching the possibilities of ozone therapy. Yet in countries like Cuba where the profit motive is absent from health care, physicians, chemists and other researchers traditionally enjoy both government support and funding for their work.

Medical ozone research has been carried out since 1985 in Cuba under the auspices of the Department of Ozone, a branch of the National Center for Scientific Research in Havana. The original work of the Department of Ozone was in exploring the use of ozone for sanitation, wastewater treatment, and the design, construction and installation of ozone generators.

Interest in the medical uses of ozone did not originate in the medical community, but owes its beginning to two chemists who happen to be husband and wife: Drs. Manuel Gomez and Moraleda and Silvia Menendez Cepero. In their research on ozone as a virucide, bactericide and fungicide in treating wastewater, they postulated that a small amount of ozone mixed with oxygen might have beneficial effects on the human body. Taking into account that Cuba was facing extreme shortages of medicine, they believed that ozone therapy may have value as a low-cost adjunct to traditional medical therapy.

Gomez and Menendez presented their ideas to members of the Cuban medical establishment, many of whom graduated from leading universities in the United States and Europe before the Cuban revolution. Their ideas were not well received at first. After some persuasion, they were finally able to convince several physicians to permit them to use ozone on a all number of difficult cases under medical supervision, and had positive results.

Fidel Castro soon learned of their successes and directed that funds be channeled into CENIC to support research in the applications of medical ozone. Within several years, Gomez and Menendez enlisted the collaboration of a network of physicians in various specialties who were open to experiment with ozone. Some of their most enthusiastic supporters today are physicians who are actively using ozone in clinics and hospitals as part of the National Program for Ozone Therapy. Between 1985 and 1994, over 25,000 patients were treated with ozone in medical institutions throughout the country, and many of the foreigners who visit Cuba for advanced medical therapy are treated with ozone.

During 1994, the Department of Ozone and the staff of 60 chemists and laboratory technicians left CENIC headquarters in Havana and moved to a spacious new campus in a park-like setting in the suburbs.  Known as The Center for Ozone Research, this modern facility includes two laboratories, two ozone clinics (one for Cubans and one for foreigners), an administration building, and a 180-bed hotel for foreign patients and their families.

The Cuban Health Care System

It is important to view ozone therapy in the overall context of the Cuban health care system.  One of the primary goals of the Cuban revolution of 1959 was to provide free and universal health care to all Cuban citizens.  Although subjected to a crippling economic blockade by the United States government since 1961, Cuba has nonetheless been able to position itself in the vanguard of medical research characteristic of many developed nations, including genetic engineering (the Center for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering is the first in Latin America), organ transplant technology, the development of an artificial heart, vaccines for hepatitis B and meningococcal meningitis B, neural brain implants to treat Parkinson's disease, and epidermal growth factor to aid burn victims.

In contract to his devastating eyewitness account of the disintegration of Castro's Cuba in his book, Castro's Final Hour, Andres Oppenheimer had this to say about the Cuban healthcare system. "In fact, the revolution's greatest success had been in providing a first-class health care system for free.  Whatever health needs Cubans had, whether a pregnancy test or a heart-bypass operation, the could have it for the asking.  And because health care was the revolution's greatest pride, the state's magnanimity was unlimited: even cosmetic surgery and orthodontic treatments were performed without charge."

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"A Cuban Success Story" was written by Nathaniel Altaman