Cuban Foreign Vice
Minister in Guatemala
Cuban Foreign Affairs
Vice Minister Bruno
Rodriguez arrived in
Guatemala Thursday,
where he will take part
in the opening of an
ophthalmologic center
equipped by Cuba, at the
Guatemalan western
department of San
Marcos.
Rodriguez was welcomed
at La Aurora
International Airport in
this capital by Cuban
Ambassador Omar Morales,
Jose Ramon Ruiz,
coordinator of the Cuban
medical brigade now
working in Guatemala,
and Cuban diplomatic
personnel in this
Central American
country.
He has scheduled to be
received by Guatemalan
Foreign Minister Haroldo
Rodas Thursday, and will
keep a contact with
Cuban doctors working in
Guatemala in the
evening.
Rodriguez is accompanied
by Yiliam Jimenez,
Foreign Vice Minister
and head of the
International
Cooperation Department
and will go to San
Marcos Friday to head
the Cuban delegation to
the inauguration of the
ophthalmologic center.
The center has
up-to-date technology
and will guarantee free
medical attention to
hundreds of thousands of
people with low incomes.
More than 20 Cuban
helpers will work in the
center, the third of its
kind equipped by Cuba in
Guatemala.
Guatemalan Vice
President Rafael Espada
was grateful to the
Cuban government and
people for the
cooperation to create
this new center.
After the inauguration,
the Cuban delegation
will tour places in
Huehuetenango,
Totonicapan and
Retalhuleu, where Cuban
public health personnel
is working.
A total of 400 Cuban
public health workers
are working in 18 of the
22 Guatemalan
departments. |
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