Maseru, June 6, 2019.- The Minister of Health of the Kingdom of Lesotho, Honourable Nkaku Kabi and the Ambassador of Cuba to this country, Rodolfo Benítez Verson, signed today in Maseru two important new Bilateral Cooperation Agreements in the field of Health.
Under the new Agreements, the Cuban Medical Brigade in the African Kingdom will be expanded and 33 new Cuban health professionals will join the 4 doctors who already provide their services there, with ample recognition of the authorities and the population. Additionally. other Cuban medical doctor specialized in different field of medicine, will be also deployed in Lesotho
At the ceremony, the Cuban Ambassador stressed that the signing of the new important Agreements takes place in the context of the celebration, next June 14, of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and Lesotho.
The Cuban diplomat added that since both countries formalized their ties in 1979, their relations have been expanding and strengthening continuously, based on friendship, cooperation and solidarity. He also reiterated, on behalf of the Cuban people and government, the gratitude for the traditional position maintained by Lesotho of rejection of the illegal and criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade unilaterally imposed on Cuba by the United States government and that is hardened even more by the current US Administration.
The Minister of Health of Lesotho, for his part, qualified the Cuban health system among the best in the world and explained that during his visit to Cuba last year, he could see that "Cuban doctors put the heart in their treatment to patients, we can learn a lot from them". He emphasized that the arrival of the new Cuban professionals, who will be distributed throughout the country, will have a great impact on the national health system of the Kingdom, affected by the lack of physicians necessary to give adequate coverage to the population.
Cuba and Lesotho initiated the health cooperation program in 2002, and in addition to the growing presence of Cuban doctors in that sister African nation, it has its expression in the training in Cuba, as doctors, of dozens of young Basothos. Basothos professionals have also been trained in our country in other areas, such as physical culture and sports, agronomy, veterinary medicine, mining, economics, accounting, hydraulic engineering, telecommunications, civil construction and computing, among other specialties.
