20 Cuban doctors arrive to work in villages

It was a visit filled with pomp, circumstance and the promise of much to come. And today the first concrete results of Prime Minister Said Musa’s February visit to Cuba arrived at the Philip Goldson International Airport. They are twenty doctors who will work to improve health standards in rural Belize. News Five spoke to one of the doctors as well as Leonardo Cuesta, Deputy Director of Cuba’s Primary Health Care System.

Dr. Junn Manuel Rodriguez

“We are supposed to be helping our brothers here in Belize. We want to work together with the doctors here that live here in Belize and we want to improve the overall health in every country that we can go. Right now we want to give our best.”

Leonardo Cuesta, Vice Director, Primary Health Care

“They are going to be here only for one year to help you in the health sector. To help improve the health of your people. They will try to develop the different problems of health that you have here in your country.”

Thirteen of the doctors will be placed in the Toledo District, three in Cayo and four in the Stann Creek District. The Ministry of Health will be hosting an orientation workshop for the doctors on Tuesday.