HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 28 (acn) Guinea Bissau's Health Minister Camilo Simoe Pereira, highlighted the international aid -especially that of Cuban doctors- that brought about the inauguration of a hospital in the city of Manosa, 60 kilometers away from Bissau, the Guinean capital.
The inauguration of the center, the first one to perform surgery in a region outside the capital, was attended by the ambassadors from Cuba and Portugal, Pedro Doña Santana and Antonio Freire, respectively.
Two Guinean and three Cuban doctors are working in this hospital, the latter also training 13 students in their fourth year of their Medicine degree course.
The new facility is the result of multilateral cooperation between several institutions, like the Portuguese Institute for the Support of Development and other international and Cuban entities, by way of which specialists in Surgery and Gynaecology are performing operations and will
train a selected group of Guinean physicians for several months.
On behalf of Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior and the Guinean Health Minister, Simoe Pereira thanked the international community for its solidarity and help, and expressed his wish for this type of multilateral cooperation to continue supporting the health sector.
(Destacan ayuda cubana en hospital de Guinea Bissau)
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