Kenya has agreed with the Cuban government to improve “bilateral cooperation” in the health sectoras reported from Nairobi in a statement today, EFE reported.
Havana and Nairobi agreed to boost their cooperation to improve quality and access to primary health care in both countries after an agreement was reached at a meeting between Kenya’s Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe and Cuba’s Ambassador to Nairobi Juan Manuel on Tuesday Rodriguez Vazquez.
“Now we need to send more Kenyan health workers to Cuba for specialized training. We are also looking for Kenyan doctors to work in Cuban facilities, particularly in the areas of cancer and malaria control.said Kagwe.
The Kenyan minister referred to the “success”. Program initiated by both countries in 2017 that made it easier for Cuban doctors to fill several vacancies in Kenyan hospitalsand the transfer of Kenyan doctors to Cuba for training.
Kenya, Kagwe said, wants to expand this ongoing collaboration into vaccine and other pharmaceutical research as well. with the aim of improving the African country’s capacity to cope with emerging health challenges.
Rodríguez, for his part, assured that The Cuban government remains committed to the full implementation of Cuba’s bilateral agreements with Kenya and stressed that his “priority” is to “complete the programs that have been started”.
On Wednesday a Kenyan court sentenced a Somali national to life imprisonment and found him guilty of kidnapping. the surgeon Landy Rodríguez Hernández and the general practitioner Assel Herrera Correa, Cuban doctors exported to this country from Havana.
isaac robov He worked for the Mandera County Administration. His job was to lead the two Cubans when they were ambushed by militants from the Al Shabaab jihadist militia, which operates in the area.
A police officer assigned to protect them was shot dead during the kidnapping, but the driver survived and was arrested immediately.
Rodríguez Hernández and Herrera Correa are hardly mentioned in Cubaafter Havana repeatedly pledged to guarantee their safe return.
September 2021, Miguel DíazCanel commemorated the two doctors’ birthdays on his Twitter profile and sent them a hug “on their birthdays, September 15 and 16 respectively. Cuba, not forgetting its children, remains determined to bring them both home safe and sound. We never tire,” he wrote at the time.
Last October, Havana reported that overall 79 Cuban doctors would be deployed in various cities in Kenyawhere they were almost three years ago kidnapped the two island specialists and the case remains unsolved despite promises from Havana and Nairobi.
Due to the announcement of this agreement to export doctors, The island’s ambassador to Nairobi, Ernesto Gómez Díaz, said that “our doctors enjoy working in Kenya”.
Havana acknowledged that sales of medical and other healthrelated services was the sector that brought in the most money in 2020, the latest official figure released so far.