Havana, Mar 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuban doctors will travel to 81 nations
to work as physicians in 2008, the director of the Central Unity of
Cooperation of the Ministry of Public Health of the island Alberto
Gonzalez emphasized.
During a meeting with physicians in the eastern province of Holguin, the
leader re****ted that they are working on the preparation of new groups
of collaborators who will travel to different countries, among them the
Salomon Islands, in the Pacific Ocean.
In that geographic region, he indicated, several Cuban medical brigades
will be welcomed in the course of this year, fundamentally in Vanuatu,
Tubalu, Nauru and Papua New Guinea, as in Laos, Congo and Benin.
At the moment, 36,578 Cuban doctors and other workers of health services
work in 73 nations, Gonzalez emphasized, according to a re****t from
National Agency of Information.
He particularly highlighted the work done by Cubans Physicians in Timor
Leste, from where the first group with the mission accomplished
returned recently.
He also recalled that this year it is marked the 45 years of the
beginning of Cuban medical collaboration work in Algeria, in which
124,112 workers of that sector have participated.
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