Banjul, Sept. 18th. – Nearly twenty Cuban health professionals arrived in The Gambia this weekend to join the Caribbean island’s Medical Brigade (BMC) that provides health care to the people of this West African nation.
The doctors, mostly specialists, in addition to graduates and professors, will work in hospitals in the various regions of this brother country, and in the Medicine Faculty of Banjul University, as teachers.
The largest of the Antilles has provided medical collaboration to Ihe Gambia for almost three decades, as it does in different African states and on the five continents.
At the same time, Gambian doctors are trained in Havana as specialists in various fields of medicine. Cuba has reiterated that despite the difficulties it faces as a result of the harsh blockade imposed by the United States, its health workers will continue to heal and save lives on this continent and in the world.
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