Following a visit by Cambodia’s Secretary of State and spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Or Vandine, to Cuba, the Caribbean country has agreed to strengthen and foster its medical cooperation with the Asian country. Vandine visited the island from December 11-19 to strengthen cooperation under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in September of this year between both countries.
Cambodia and Cuba have agreed to further strengthen and foster health cooperation between the two countries, as well as collaborate on training medical human resources in 2023, following a visit to the island nation by one of the Kingdom’s top health officials. Ministry of Health secretary of state Or Vandine paid a formal visit to Cuba from December 11-19 to strengthen cooperation under the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on September 24 between the health ministries of the two nations.
The willingness of the Cuban Government to strengthen medical collaboration with the Kingdom of Cambodia was ratified by meeting between José Angel Portal Miranda, Cuban Minister of Public Health, and Or Vandine, Secretary of State of the Cambodian Ministry of Health. Ms. Vandine said she was glad to be in the Island to learn about its health care system and conveyed her government’s appreciation that Cambodian students can become doctors in Cuba’s medical schools, in line with her country’s intention to expand this service as based on the Cuban experience.
Fernando Gonzalez, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), on Monday wound up in Phnom Penh on a tour of Asian nations that previously took him to Laos and Vietnam. On his second and last day in this capital, Cheam Yeap, first vice president of the Cambodian Parliament, received Gonzalez, who is a lawmaker at the National People’s Power Assembly (ANPP) in Cuba. Yeap reiterated his country’s willingness to strengthen ties in all spheres with Cuba.
The Institute for International Studies and Public Policy was honored to host a Public Lecture with the presence of H.E. Ms. Liurka Rodríguez Barrios, Ambassador of Cuba to the Kingdom of Cambodia. The diplomat said that the intense bilateral activity of recent weeks is nothing more than the fruit of the seed cultivated by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and King Father Norodom Sihanouk, who cemented an intimate friendship and identified with the common cause for peace and progress.