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Guyana, Cuba sign agreements for more health workers, sports collaboration

Oct 20, 2012 News

 

Guyana and Cuba yesterday signed agreements that will see cooperation in the areas of sports and education and continuing collaboration in health.
A team led by President Donald Ramotar is on an official visit there since Wednesday.
According to Cuba’s Prensa Latina news website, the health agreement deepens the Cuban collaboration with the South American country of Guyana in the matter of medical attention in the primary and secondary levels, as well as the support in the training of professionals.
Regarding the sports sector, the agreement looks for collaboration with technical assistance in physical education.
Cuba is well-known for its prowess in the field of sports worldwide.
Georgetown and Havana also signed an agreement to waive certain categories of visas, “for the sake of facilitating the trips of holders of those documents”.
Signing on behalf of Guyana was Foreign Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, while her Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodriguez; the Minister of Public Health, Roberto Morales, and the President of the National Institute of Deportes, Physical Education and Recreation, Cristián Jimenez, represented their various portfolios on behalf of Cuba.
Cuba and Guyana maintain cooperation links in sectors including public health, education, culture and sport.
More than 1, 200 Cuban medical professionals have served in Guyana under past agreements.
As part of the “Vision Now Operation”, and before the creation of the National Center of Ophthalmology of Port Mourant, Berbice, more than one 1,000 Guyanese patients with eye problems were operated on here.
Four diagnostic centres now exist in Guyana with 175 Cubans, including doctors, nurses and technicians, working.
Regarding the educational sector, more than 550 Guyanese students have graduated there.
The president has met with Guyanese students in Cuba.

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