Minister of Saint Vincent admires Cuban medical personnel
Guantánamo, Mar 6, (CMKS).- Douglas Slater, minister of Public Health of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, praised today the scientific level of the Cuban medical team working in that country on the Vida a la Vida (Life to Life) project on differently-able persons.
Speaking at the Vincentian parliament´s session, Slater referred to the scientific, psychosocial, educational and clinical study being developed since the first of March by 38 aid workers from the Cuban island, for the benefit of people with disabilities in the neighboring nation.
The official stressed the welcoming of the population study and its importance in the design of government strategies for social care, says the website of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is the first Caribbean country to receive this project, results authorities at the West Indies University are very concerned with.
Slater said the program has the approval of his country´s Ethics Committee, an essential element before implementing a program of this magnitude.
Cuban specialists have carried out the study of disabled persons in Venezuela and Nicaragua, and currently it is being performed in Ecuador and Bolivia under the auspices of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America.Translation: Ilia Charon
