[Marxism] ACN: Cuba and China Ratify Interest in Public Health Cooperation

[Walter Lippmann]

Cuba and China Ratify Interest in Public Health Cooperation

Havana, March 28 (acn) Cuban Public Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer 
and his Chinese counterpart, Chen Zhu, met on Thursday in Beijing, 
China, to check on the state of bilateral cooperation in the health 
sector.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, during the meeting, the 
officials expressed both countries’ interest in further developing the 
exchange of experiences and cooperation in this sector.

Also present were Chinese ministerial officials and the Cuban ambassador 
to Beijing, Carlos Miguel Pereira, as well as members of Balaguer’s 
accompanying delegation.

On Thursday, Balaguer also gave a lecture in the venue of the Chinese 
Public Health Ministry about the island’s experiences on the development 
and advances in the training of specialists and the health services 
offered to the people.

The Cuban Health Minister also visited the city of Datong, in the 
Chinese province of Shanxi, some 250 kilometers to the East of Beijing, 
where a third Cuba-China Friendship ophthalmological hospital will soon 
be inaugurated.

The first center of this kind was inaugurated in December 2006 in 
Xining, in the province of Qinghai, and the second will officially open 
in the next hours in Hebi, province of Henan.



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     WALTER LIPPMANN
     Los Angeles, California
     Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
     "Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
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