Cuban health professionals celebrated Latin American Medicine Day and the 32nd anniversary of medical collaboration in this Caribbean country, a diplomatic source reported today.
In the activity, chaired by the ambassador of the largest of the Antilles, María Caridad Balaguer, Consul Gustavo Aguinaga and Dr. María del Carmen Lozada, the most prominent in the sector in 2022 at the national level were stimulated.
In addition, the Cuban authorities present fired a group of collaborators who conclude their internationalist mission in favor of the public health of the Belizean people with high professional results.
The staff in white gave the ambassador a painting of the historical leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, the architect of Cuban medical services in the world.
At the end of the meeting, held in the Xunantunich archaeological reserve in Benque Viejo del Carmen, heritage of the Mayan culture, the participants received an explanation of the site and visited its ruins.
The collaboration between Cuba and Belize in the field of health began on December 8, 1990, and currently more than a hundred collaborators provide their services here.
The Antillean brigade of the International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics "Henry Reeve" excelled in the tasks of containing the Covid-19 pandemic in this Central American nation.
At the end of last April, the health ministers of both nations, José A. Portal and Kevin Bernard, agreed to expand cooperation, in a ceremony in Havana led by the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel. Belizean President John Antonio Briceño.