Cuba sends 15 specialist doctors to Zimbabwe

The Cuban government sent a team of 15 specialist doctors to Zimbabwe for a three-year work stay as part of the cooperation in the medical sector between the two countries.

"The medical specialists are in the country as part of a long-standing bilateral agreement between Cuba and Zimbabwe that has existed for more than four decades. The Cuban medical brigade will assist in the provision of health services throughout Zimbabwe and share experiences with their counterparts Zimbabweans," said Yoisy Ford García, Cuban Chargé d'Affaires in Zimbabwe.

According to a note published last Wednesday in The Herald, the delegation was received at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport by officials from the Ministry of Health and Child Care and by the Charge d'Affaires of Cuba.

In an interview, the Cuban official stated that the doctors would be assigned to public hospitals throughout the country.

The brigade is made up of specialist and electromedical doctors, biomedical engineers, special clinicians and legal specialists.

Simon Nyadundu, Chief Director of Human Resources and Administration at the Ministry of Health and Child Care, said the country's health sector "would benefit greatly from the medical brigade".

"Zimbabwe has been receiving medical specialists from Cuba since 1980. As a ministry we are very happy to have received a brigade of 15 specialists who will work in our central hospitals. Their visit is very important for us because it will improve our health system, especially in the department of biomedical engineering, where they will help us repair the machines," he declared.

In the midst of a shortage of medical specialists that has skyrocketed the costs of specialized care, Zimbabwe once again turns to the Cuban regime to alleviate this crisis.

In addition, the media reported that several science teachers from that country were sent to Cuba for training, while Cuban doctors are sent from time to time to the country's central and district hospitals in Harare, Marondera, Chinhoyi, Bulawayo and Gweru. .

In previous years, the Cuban government also has made available to Zimbabwe to their doctors in the midst of a crisis in the health system on the island.

In 2018Cuba even assigned around 35 doctors to stop a cholera outbreakthat had ended the lives of more than twenty people in just two weeks.

The group was part of the Cuban medical brigade that worked in that country, in accordance with the health agreements between both governments.