Cuban doctors sent to work in Bahrain

Cuban doctors sent to work in Bahrain
09 March 2015 - 22H25

HAVANA (AFP) -
A contingent of Cuban health professionals has arrived in Bahrain to
begin work in the tiny Gulf kingdom under a deal forged last year, the
government said Monday.

"The first group of medical professionals has arrived... in Manama, the
capital of the kingdom of Bahrain," Cuba's Foreign Ministry said in a
statement published on its website.

"The agreement forms the basis for cooperation in the areas of medical
services and biotechnology, as well as medical research and other areas
of mutual interest," the ministry said.

A photo accompanying the statement showed about 15 people in this first
group of medical experts, who have been assigned to work at a hospital
in Muharraq, Bahrain's third largest city.

Cuba earns about 11 billion dollars each year by exporting the services
of its medical professionals, the communist island's top revenue producer.

Some 50,000 health workers have been hired out to roughly 70 countries.

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