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Premier of Timor Leste extols Cuban medical collaboration

Prensa Latina - July 22, 2015

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Dili – Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araujo thanked the Cuban government and health collaborators for the support offered for over a decade.

In the opening ceremony of a program to extend primary health care to all the people and promote dispensarization countrywide, Cuban Ambassador Luis Laffitte Rodriguez gave De Araujo a frameworked picture of him greeting the historical leader of the Cuban Revoluton Fidel Castro on a visit to Cuba, in 2005.

The health program, scheduled to conclude in November, 2016, was designed following the Cuban health model, recalled De Araujo.

The Cuban ambassador highlighted Fidel Castro's controbution to the health of the Cuban people and of other countries around the world by turning Cuba into a health power and sending doctors and other health experts to over 82 countries.

The ceremony was attended by representatives of the World Health Organization, the UN Food and Agricuture Organization, Cuban collaborators and the staff of the Cuban Embassy in Timor Leste.

Source: http://www.plenglish.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4011151&Itemid=1.