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More Cuban doctors and health professionals arrive in Mozambique – Notícias
12:16 CAT | 17 Mar 2021
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A team of 39 Cuban health professionals, including intensivist doctors and nurses, will bolster the care of patients in Covid-19 treatment centres over the coming days and weeks. The experts, who arrived in the country yesterday, will be dispersed between the 15 Covid-19 isolation centres in the country.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Zacarias Zindoga, welcomed the Cuban health workers, noting that the Mozambican health sector has defined a standard team to be asigned to Covid-19 treatment centres, working on a three-shift basis.
“To guarantee the provision of qualified labour, given the insufficiency of national doctors specialised in intensive care, the Ministry of Health proposed resorting to hiring Cuban nationals, within the scope of the bilateral agreement,” he explained.
Zindoga recalled that the cooperation protocols between the Cuba and Mozambique provide for the provision of health care, research into diseases, advice on the implementation of priority programmes and the promotion of health education.
The new group of Cuban health workers joins 14 others who have been in the country since last January.
The Cuban ambassador to Maputo, Pável Diaz Hernandez, remarked that their arrival came at a critical time for the world, when more than 2.6 million people had died and 120 million were infected with the disease.
The ambassador observed that the chief hope in combating the disease lay in the vaccines that have been produced and tested worldwide, announcing that Cuba has two vaccines currently in the third phase of clinical trials, and which may become available for Mozambique.
Source: Noticias
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