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(LUSAKATIMES) More Cuban medical staff coming to Zambia

More Cuban medical staff coming to Zambia
TIME PUBLISHED - Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 3:28 pm

MORE than 60 medical experts comprising doctors and nurses from Cuba are expected to arrive in Zambia soon, out-going Cuban Ambassador to Zambia Carmelina Ramirez Rodriguez has said. Ms Rodriguez said plans were underway to send Cuban medical officers who would collaborate with Zambia’s Ministry of Health to help deliver quality health services.

Speaking in Lusaka yesterday when she bade farewell to Foreign Affairs Minister Given Lubinda, Ms Rodriguez said the medical experts would come to Zambia either later this year or early next year.

She said Cuba would also explore avenues of helping Zambia to enhance the agriculture sector by starting to produce locally made animal vaccines to fight livestock diseases.

“I am confident that my successor would also continue to carry forward the cordial bilateral relations between my country and Zambia,” she said

She thanked the Zambian Government for providing a conducive environment resulting in the historic cooperation in various sectors.

Ms Rodriguez is expected to leave Zambia for Cuba in October this year.

And Mr Lubinda appealed to the Cuban government to enhance provision of various scholarships including journalism to enable practitioners to pursue studies in fields such as tourism.

He said the Government was grateful to Cuba for its continued provision of scholarships to the Zambian people, a move which demonstrated goodwill from the people of Cuba.

“As Government, we shall ensure this strong and conducive existing bilateral relation continues to grow. “We are happy with the many doctors and other medical personnel for coming to work and improve delivery of quality health services to Zambia,” he said.

The Minister was confident that the two countries would continue to collaborate in various sectors of the economy, citing the 40 years of unbroken bilateral relations.

Mr Lubinda implored the media in Zambia to take keen interest in the happenings in Cuba.

Meanwhile, out-going Danish Ambassador to Zambia Thomas Schjerbeck said Zambia has an impressive and well-performing economic growth which had the potential to trickle down and improve the welfare of citizens.

Mr Schjerbeck said Denmark was inspired with the Patriotic Front Government’s solid manifesto which contained various developmental polices that could move the country’s economy forward.

He was speaking in Lusaka yesterday when he called on Mr Lubinda to bid farewell.

[Times of Zambia]

Labels: CUBA, HEALTHCARE

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