The South African Ministry of Health congratulated the Cuban people on the 60th anniversary of their internationalist medical support.
In a statement to that effect, the value of Cuban cooperation to save lives through medical brigades throughout the world is highlighted.
The Ministry recalls that South Africa is one of the more than 100 nations that benefited from Cuba’s solidarity, internationalism and medical cooperation through specialists who contributed immensely to strengthening the national health system and its response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Likewise, it highlights the Nelson Mandela-Fidel Castro Medical Training Program, which has graduated more than three thousand South African doctors from various Cuban universities, who work largely in sectors of less favored communities.
The statement quoted the Vice Minister of Health, Sibongiseni Dhlomo, who noted that South Africa would not have benefited from this fruitful cooperation had it not been through the efforts of the world-admired revolutionary freedom fighters of the two countries, Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro. The vice minister concluded that both leaders were convinced that Health is the greatest wealth anyone can have.
