The Cuban President, Miguel Diaz-Canelvisited this Sunday a medical center that has Cuban professionals in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the first point on his tour of several Caribbean countries.
The Modern Medical and Diagnostic Center in Georgetown, officially inaugurated on July 2, 2018, was built with the help of Cuba and its staff includes 26 Cuban specialists from six specialties, including Surgery, Anesthesia, Nephrology and Comprehensive General Medicine, according to a report in the official newspaper Granma.
A Commander in Chief’s dream come true is the Diagnostic and Medical Center we visited in Georgetown.
In this modern health institution, the result of cooperation and friendship, Cuban health collaborators work together with San Vicentino colleagues. #SomosCaribe pic.twitter.com/LRINfqRWVW
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) December 4, 2022
“The affection and recognition towards our cooperators is palpable,” Díaz-Canel said in a message on Twitter after touring the facilities with the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves.
Díaz-Canel explained that he spoke with the Cuban doctors about “the humanist vocation of the Revolution and the imperishable legacy of Fidel (Castro).” He also indicated that the modern health institution is “the fruit of cooperation and friendship” and “a dream of the Commander in Chief come true.”
This Monday, the Cuban will pay a courtesy visit to the Governor General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Susan Dougan. The visit will culminate with a special session of the House of Assembly to which Díaz-Canel, Gonsalves and the opposition leader, Godwin Friday, will address.
During his tour of the Caribbean, the Cuban president will also travel to Barbados and Grenada and will participate in the VIII Caricom-Cuba Summit, which is being held in Barbados.
Before starting the trip, he announced that he will commemorate the support of Mexico, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, who established diplomatic ties with Cuba 50 years ago, despite the regional isolation to which Havana was subjected.
Every December 8, Caricom-Cuba Day is celebrated due to the decision of those four Caribbean countries to establish diplomatic relations with Havana on this date in 1972.
Díaz-Canel meets with Turkish businessmen at the closing of his international tour
Caricom is currently made up of Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The Cuban president and six of his key ministers have just returned from a tour of Algeria, Turkey, Russia and China, marked by political alliances, debt restructuring and energy agreements.
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