Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez continued the agenda this Sunday as part of his official visit to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, when he toured the capital’s modern medical and diagnostic center, Georgetown, accompanied by Vincentian Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves.
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“A Commander-in-Chief’s dream come true is the Diagnostic and Medical Center we visited in Georgetown. In this modern health facility, the result of collaboration and friendship, Cuban health workers work alongside colleagues from San Vicentino,” wrote the Cuban President on his Twitter account.
Likewise, the assembled executives agreed that this center is one of the most important on the Caribbean island due to its equipment and the quality of the professionals working there.
A Commander-in-Chief’s dream come true is the Diagnostic and Medical Center we visited in Georgetown.
In this modern health facility, the result of collaboration and friendship, Cuban health workers work alongside colleagues from San Vicentino. #SomosCaribe pic.twitter.com/LRINfqRWVW
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB)
December 4, 2022
26 Cuban doctors work in this hospital, divided into six specialties, including surgery, anesthesia, nephrology and general medicine.
Likewise, these doctors share work with other doctors from San Vicentino, many of whom graduated in Cuba.
During his stay on site, President Díaz-Canel Bermúdez met several members of the delegation of Cuban doctors and took the opportunity to congratulate them on Latin American Medicine Day (December 3).
next to brother @Comrade Ralph We visited the beautiful facility. The affection and recognition towards our employees is palpable.
We spoke to them about their daily work, the humanist vocation of the revolution and the enduring legacy of #Fidel.#SomosCaribe pic.twitter.com/idAjDT2DTD
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB)
December 4, 2022
Díaz-Canel learned details about the work of Cuban health workers during the La Soufriere volcano eruption in April 2021.
These workers immediately joined the emergency services and, among other things, cared for affected children, including a group of underage minors without child protection.
In St. Vincent and the Grenadines there are 77 health workers and four construction workers. Since 1992 (the year when bilateral relations between the two countries were established), 308 St. Vincentian students have graduated from the Cuban training centers.