Guyana, December 29, 2016. Authorities from the Ministry of Public Health of Guyana welcomed 31 Cuban health collaborators who number the nearly 200 members of the Cuban Medical Brigade by the end of 2016, including professionals with specialties scarce or nonexistent in the country.
Local health representatives praised the good performance of the Cuban collaborators during the year about to end. They highlight their essential contribution to raising the living standard of the Guyanese population and the commitment to continue strengthening bilateral work in the health sector.
The new members of the Medical Brigade will be stationed in six of the ten regions of the country where Cuban professionals already work as well as in other distant places where the medical collaboration of the Island will be present for the first time.
The Chief of the Cuban Medical Brigade and the Cuban Ambassador joined the welcome. The last one highlighted, among other achievements, the graduation of 86 doctors from the Cuban School of Medicine who were taught the sixth year of their career by collaborators of the Medical Brigade and the beginning of the new school year 2016-2017 with 38 future doctors, including some from countries in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.
When wishing success to the new group of collaborators in their work, the diplomat remarked that with their action they put into practice an important legacy of our Commander-in-Chief: contribute to the well-being of other peoples of the world by means of collaboration, solidarity and internationalism.
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