CUBA, May 25, 2011.- Winston Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Antigua and Barbuda, underlined on Tuesday that thanks to Cuban physicians thousands of lives are saved around the world. During a visit to Havana’s Latin American Medical School (ELAM), the PM thanked Cuba for the help it has given to his country and to other nations in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as for its solidarity. Baldwin Spencer pointed out that Cuban medical schools –and particularly the ELAM-have proved to be ready to train students from other nations as physicians, who later return to their countries of origin to cure and look after the health of their peoples. The Deputy Minister for Teaching and Research of the Public Health Ministry, Roberto Gonzalez, explained to the distinguished visitor that over 20,000 students from about 100 countries are now trained at the island’s medical universities. From the beginning of this cooperation, 116 youngsters from Antigua and Barbuda have graduated as professionals from Cuban higher educational centers, 16 of them in the specialty of Medicine. At present there are 157 scholarship holders from that country studying in Cuba, 50 of them to become health professionals. (Cubaminrex-ACN)
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