Africa-Press – Angola. More than 200 Angolan scholarship holders finalizing the Medicine course in Cuba will return to the country this week, according to a note from the Angolan Embassy in that Caribbean country.
According to the document, the new doctors spent more than five years in training at the faculties of Medicine in the cities of Havana, Holguin and Santiago de Cuba.
Among the new health professionals, 186 are specialists in General Medicine and the rest in Stomatology, Clinical Analysis, Nutrition and Health Information System, Optics and Optometry, Nursing and Physical Rehabilitation.
Last weekend, the Faculty of Medicine of the province of Santiago hosted the ceremony for the delivery of certificates and diplomas of recognition to 49 new professionals who will strengthen the Angolan national health system.
In a ceremony attended by the ambassador of Angola to Cuba, Maria Cândida Teixeira, officials of the Diplomatic Mission and family members, the new cadres of the Health sector expressed their determination to do their best to serve the country.
For the Angolan diplomat, the training of this group of doctors will contribute to the strengthening of the entire Angolan health system, which has important infrastructures, many of which were built in the last four years.
Last year, more than 500 fellows also completed their training in Medicine at different faculties in Cuba, in addition to others in different courses in the areas of engineering.
Angola and Cuba share historical political, diplomatic, economic, commercial and cultural ties. The links with the Caribbean country have, so far, enabled the training of more than 45,000 Angolans in different areas of knowledge, since the first students were sent in the 70s of the last century.
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