Qatar, Cuba Sign Accord
CUBA, June 10, 2010. The Qatar Supreme Council of Health signed an agreement with Cuba to provide medical services in Dukhan Hospital, the country's most modern multidisciplinary facility, located on the Emirate east coast, diplomatic sources reported on Thursday.
Faleh Mohammed Hussein, Deputy Minister for Policy Development at the Qatari Public Health Ministry, and Cuban Ambassador Armando Vergara, inked the text in Doha on Wednesday defining operations for the health care center where the island's physicians will work.
According to a source with the Cuban delegation in this capital, Hussein was representing Abdulah Bin Khalid Al Qahtani, Minister of Health and general secretary of the mentioned Council.
The accord includes a series of regulations on the distribution of medical management and tasks shared by the two countries in Dukhan Hospital as part of the joint collaboration in this field.
Hussein expressed gratitude for Havana's attention in further development of collaboration and friendship between the two countries and peoples.
Vergara stated that the Cuban government hopes to expand and strengthen links with this Arab-Persian Gulf emirate.
Dukhan, where oil was first discovered and exploited in Qatar, has been an important industrial center since the 1930s, and is located 52 miles east of Doha.(Cubaminrex- PL)