A good analogy is Cuba- they have one of the most rigorous schools for becoming a doctor, but they wouldn't know how to operate an MRI since none exist in the c

A good analogy is Cuba- they have one of the most rigorous schools for becoming a doctor, but they wouldn't know how to operate an MRI since none exist in the country. A report here from 2006 says otherwise: Cuba spends ∼16% of its GNP directly on the health system, roughly $320 per year per person. As would be expected, tertiary medical facilities lack both the amenities and the technology found in industrialized countries. A recent modernization campaign, however, has brought interventional cardiology and MRI, for example, to the 48 referral hospitals and ultrasound and endoscopy to polyclinics. http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/4/817.full http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/4/817.full