• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 10 / 07 / 2010

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HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 5 (acn) Salvadorian President Mauricio Funes visited this Tuesday the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM by its Spanish acronym) and said he was greatly impressed and thankful by the school’s contribution to his country and the rest of the Americas.

Funes had visited the school before taking office in his country, but from his new position “I can understand better its importance” he declared.

School official Maritza Gonzalez told Funes that after six graduations, over 8,500 doctors have come out of this school, including 508 Salvadorians, a fact Funes dubbed as of “indescribable importance” and added that those graduates will use, in their future profession, all the Cuban experience in the field.

The Salvadorian president met with students from his country and the press and thanked Cuba once more for its solidarity.

One Salvadorian doctor-to-be, Mario Serna, said Cuba had given them the opportunity to train and graduate as “workers of science and conscience”. He presented his President with a stethoscope and the “The Strategic Victory”, a book by Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro.

Funes spoke to the students of the meeting he had with Cuban president Raul Castro the day before when he said that it had been a “historical sin” that the two countries had not shared diplomatic relations for over 50 years. He added he had thanked Raul as well for the aid to his country in difficult times and had propose to extend the bilateral bonds in the economic and social sectors.

He also told Raul to forward Fidel Castro his best wishes and his respect and admiration.

Mauricio Funes was accompanied his Foreign Affairs Minister Hugo Martinez as well as by Cuban Health Minister Roberto Morales.

Source: ACN