Cuban specialists in Primary Health Care will collaborate in Ho Chi Minh City for the development of a community medicine project.
In a videoconference between authorities of the Health Department of the southern metropolis of Vietnam and the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), it was agreed that two Antillean experts will initially travel to Vietnam, and then professionals from Ho Chi Minh City will come to Cuba, in order to learn about the island's experience in primary health care, Prensa Latina news agency has reported.
The Cuban consul general in that city, Ariadne Feo Labrada, explained that the purpose of the Health Department delegation is to work in the communities with family doctors and polyclinics, and to exchange with specialists in areas in which Cuba has many strengths, such as kidney transplants, obstetrics and cancer treatment.
There is also interest in learning more about the technological development of Cuba's biopharmaceutical industry, including the production of vaccines, she added.
At the online meeting, the director of the Ho Chi Minh City Health Department, Tang Chi Thuong, thanked Cuba for its willingness to support them, while the head of MINSAP's Primary Health Care Department, Ailuj Casanova, stressed that community health centers are an important part of Cuba's public health system and operate in urban and rural areas nationwide, at a rate of one per 1,000 households, guaranteeing broad medical coverage.
The exchange responds to what was agreed upon by the member of the Political Bureau of the Party and Cuban Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, in his conversations with the leaders of that southern city, during his visit last year.
Translated by ESTI
