According to a statement from Marta Lomas Morales, Minister for Foreign Investment and Economic Collaboration, published in Granma today, more than 120 mixed commissions periodically check the fulfillment of the programs and outline the new ones.

There are 876 projects with developing countries; outstanding those related to health care because of its very positive impact in the improvement of the sanitary indicators and the direct attention to the most needed population in those territories.

Nowadays, 15 thousand of Cubans are rendering medical collaboration in more than 64 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Europe.

The island also supports the formation of health care personnel and other national programs to fight contagious diseases, among others.

This Cuban internationalist cooperation started 40 years ago and includes the formation of foreign students in centers of the island and the realization of literacy projects.

51 out of the 54 African nations have been benefited from these relations, as well as some of Latin America and the Caribbean countries like Venezuela, where 262 patients have received health care for free in the "biggest of the Antilles".

There are also projects with Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Granada and Haiti. And it is expected to start a health care collaboration with Trinidad and Tobago and Belize, together with a primary school teaching program in Belize.