HCM City wants to cooperate with Cuba in health care
Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City is keen to implement health care cooperation programmes with Cuba, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee said at a reception for visiting Cuban Deputy Minister of Health Marcia Cobas Riuz on May 16.
Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem (R) and Cuban Deputy Minister of Health Marcia Cobas Riuz (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Vietnam’s southerneconomic hub of Ho Chi Minh City is keen to implement health care cooperationprogrammes with Cuba, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem said ata reception for visiting Cuban Deputy Minister of Health Marcia Cobas Riuz onMay 16.
He said HCM City wants to carry out the Cubandoctors programme in the city and collaborate in the distribution ofpharmaceutical products and human resources training.
The city is willing to work with Cuba to implement a plan on primary dentalcare, he added.
Marcia Cobas Riuz said her ongoing visit aims toincrease the efficiency of cooperation in medical care between Vietnam and Cubain general and between Cuba and Vietnamese localities in particular.
Based on the sound traditional relations betweenthe two countries, Cuba hopes HCM City authorities will facilitate thebilateral health cooperation, she said.
While sharing about the potential and strengthof Cuba in the field, Marcia Cobas Riuz expressed the wish to collaborate withHCM City in the provision of Cuban doctors for hospitals in the city, thedistribution of pharmaceutical products, and training connectivity betweenuniversities.
She called for the city’s support for theorganisation of a workshop introducing Cuba’s health care to local privatehospitals.
The official suggested the two sides jointlyimplement the primary dental care for HCM City’s residents.
Cuban doctors are working across 63 countriesworldwide. Cuba is evaluated as one of the best suppliers of primary health careservices with over 10,000 family doctors nationwide.-VNA
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A workshop on trade and investment promotion in Cuba and the 8th meeting of the Vietnam-Cuba Joint Business Council were held in Hanoi on April 9 by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the Cuban Chamber of Commerce.
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Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem (R) and Cuban Deputy Minister of Health Marcia Cobas Riuz (Photo: VNA) 
