Maseru, December 20, 2020- The Minister of Health of the Kingdom of Lesotho, Hon. Motlatsi Maquelepo, received the Ambassador of Cuba to the Kingdom, Rodolfo Benítez Verson, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health, in the capital city Maseru.
Minister Maquelepo thanked, on behalf of his people and government, the excellent work carried out by the Cuban Medical Brigade in Lesotho, currently made up of 14 doctors with extensive experience, the vast majority of who have already completed several internationalist missions in different continents.
Cuban doctors provide the country's population with outpatient services in various specialties, including Internal Medicine, Gynecology, Pediatrics, Surgery, Body of Guard and Comprehensive General Medicine. For their dedication to work and professionalism, they have earned the appreciation and affection of the Basotha population.
The Minister emphasized the interest of the Kingdom in expanding, in the shortest possible time, the Cuban medical presence in the country, including in other highly deficient specialties. The Cuban Ambassador assured the commitment of the Cuban side to give a positive response to these needs, as agreed by Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel Bermúdez and the King of Lesotho His Majesty Letsie III, on the occasion of the official visit of the monarch to our country last March.
The Ambassador of the Island also confirmed the decision of the Cuban government to grant 10 scholarships for free study in Cuba to young Basothos for the next academic year, including 5 medicine scholarships. Thanks to the annual scholarships granted by Cuba, dozens of young people from the Kingdom have been able to graduate as doctors, which has a great social impact in the country, since Lesotho still does not have Medical Schools to graduate its own doctors.
The Cuban Ambassador was accompanied at the meeting by Dr. Yamisleydis Ruiz Marache, Head of the Cuban Medical Mission in Lesotho.
