Currently 36,578 Cuban doctors and other health workers are providing medical care in 73 countries.
According to the Cubavisión International television network, several medical brigades will be dispatched to countries in this region: Vanuatu, Tubalu, Nauru and Papua New Guinea, as well as to Laos and Benin.
Currently 36,578 Cuban doctors and other health workers are providing medical care in 73 countries, according to González.
Particularly significant has been the work of Cuban medical personnel in Timor Leste, from where a brigade has just recently returned after completing its mission.
In 2008, 45 years of Cuban medical solidarity, initiated in Algeria, will be celebrated.
Since 1961, Cuba has cooperated with 154 countries around the world and has offered the services of 270,743 internationalists, 124,112 of them health professionals and technicians in 103 countries.
(Granma International)
According to the Cubavisión International television network, several medical brigades will be dispatched to countries in this region: Vanuatu, Tubalu, Nauru and Papua New Guinea, as well as to Laos and Benin.
Currently 36,578 Cuban doctors and other health workers are providing medical care in 73 countries, according to González.
Particularly significant has been the work of Cuban medical personnel in Timor Leste, from where a brigade has just recently returned after completing its mission.
In 2008, 45 years of Cuban medical solidarity, initiated in Algeria, will be celebrated.
Since 1961, Cuba has cooperated with 154 countries around the world and has offered the services of 270,743 internationalists, 124,112 of them health professionals and technicians in 103 countries.
(Granma International)