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Cuban doctors to aid Vietnamese peers in Quang Binh

The Vietnam – Cuba Dong Hoi Friendship Hospital in the central province of Quang Binh has signed a contract to invite Cuban experts to work here and help train local doctors in the next two years.
Cuban doctors to aid Vietnamese peers in Quang Binh ảnh 1The Vietnam – Cuba Dong Hoi Friendship Hospital will invite Cuban experts to help train local doctors in the next two years. (Photo: VNA)
Quang Binh (VNA) – The Vietnam – Cuba Dong HoiFriendship Hospital in the central province of Quang Binh has signed a contractto invite Cuban experts to work here and help train local doctors in the nexttwo years.

Selected Cuban doctors are experts in cardiology, oncology,neuropathology, and traumatology – orthopedics, among others. Part of thefinancial source for the contract is sponsored by the provincial authorities.

Duong Thanh Binh, Director of the hospital, said Cubanexperts will join doctors at the hospital in providing health check-ups andtreatment.

A group of interpreters has been set up to facilitate thecollaboration and technical transfer, Binh added.

The Vietnam – Cuba Dong Hoi Friendship Hospital wasestablished with Cuban funding on September 9, 1981as a symbol of the twocountries’ solidarity. The general medical facility accommodates 900 beds,serving patients in provinces from Ha Tinh to Quang Tri in the centralregion.-VNA
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