After almost two decades of successful collaboration in the field of health, Cuba and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are working on updating the bases of cooperation in this important area, with the spur of recent arrival of a significant number of Cuban health professionals, who will work in the Modern Medical Center (CDI) of Georgetown with their Vincentian colleagues.
The Permanent Secretary of Health, Wellness and Environment of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Cuthbert Knights and Cuban Ambassador Vilma Reyes Valdespino, examined, together with the Chief of the Cuban Medical Brigade, Dr. Nelson Vicente Díaz Lobo and other Vincentian officials of the sector, the text of the new bilateral cooperation agreement on health, called to adapt and optimize the efforts of the two countries in the expansion and improvement of medical services provided to the population in the public sector.
Being the first country in the eastern Caribbean to provide its citizens with free treatment of diabetic foot ulcer with the Cuban drug Heberprot-P; Having a modern medical center, endowed with innovative and efficient state-of-the-art equipment and with an experienced group of Cuban specialists, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has many reasons to aspire to become a regional reference in the treatment of a group of pathologies.