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A team of 15 medical specialists from Cuba has arrived in Zimbabwe to participate in a three-year knowledge and work exchange programme.
The specialists will be stationed throughout government hospitals and will help improve the health delivery system in the country, particularly in the biomedical engineering department where they will assist in repairing machines. The delegation was received by Health and Child Care Ministry chief director human resources, Dr Simon Nyadundu, and Cuban ambassador to Zimbabwe, Yoisy Ford Garcia.
Nyadundu said the country’s health sector would benefit immensely from the medical brigade.
“Zimbabwe has been receiving medical specialists from Cuba since 1980. We are very happy as a ministry that we received a brigade of 15 specialists who are going to be working in our central hospitals,” he said.
Ambassador Garcia said: “The specialist doctors are in the country as part of a long-standing bilateral agreement between Cuba and Zimbabwe that has existed for more than four decades,” she said.
“The Cuban medical brigade will assist in health delivery across Zimbabwe and will share experiences with their Zimbabwean counterparts.”
She said the medical brigade had specialist doctors and electro medics, bio medical engineers, special clinicians and legal specialists.
Bongani Ndlovu
Mathew Masinge