Kandy, April 5, 2025. During his visit to the city of Kandy, Cuban Ambassador Andrés Marcelo González Garrido was received by a group of doctors who graduated from Cuban universities and reside in this region of Sri Lanka.
During the meeting, the ambassador updated them on the situation in Cuba, the people's resistance to the tightening of the United States economic blockade and the measures announced by the new administration, as well as on the media campaigns orchestrated by enemies of the revolution to discredit Cuban medical cooperation.
The graduates recalled their time as students in Cuba and thanked the Cuban government for the opportunity it gave them to train as medical professionals and serve their homeland, Sri Lanka, where they currently work.
More than 70 Sri Lankan doctors have graduated in Cuba, and scholarships to study medicine at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) have continued to be offered.
The meeting was organized by the Association of Sri Lankan Graduates in Cuba whose president, Chiththadhamma Rathnamudali, was present, as was Maribel Duarte González, First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy