Cooperation  between Congo and Cuba - The Minister of Finance and Budget, honourable Calixte Nganongo welcomes the deputy Minister of Public health  of Cuba, Honourable Marcia Coba Ruiz.

On Monday, May 7, 2018, in Brazzaville,  the Congolese Minister of Finance, honourable Calixte Nganongo, along with his fellow, Minister of Health and Population, had talks in his office with Mrs. Marcia Cobas Ruiz, Cuban deputy Minister of Public Health of Cuba, who was with her Ambassador in Congo, H.E. Mr. Manuel Serrano Acosta.

They talked about  the cooperation between both countries  in various fields and the ways of strengthening it. In the field of health for example, the two parties talked about  the Congolese  medicine students in  Cuba, who are still  carrying on their  studies. «Their training will end within two years and you will then welcome the first group of those students» said Mrs. Marcia Cobas Ruiz at the end of the talks. 

Medical teams will go across the country in a near future, especially in the departments where they are not involved yet :  Cuvette,  Likouala, Plateaux, Cuvette- Ouest and Bouenza. In other departments like  Cuvette , Owando (Hopital 31 Juillet) and Oyo (Hopital general Edith Lucie  Bongo Ondimba), Brazzaville, Pointe Noire and in the department of Niari (general hospital of Dolisie),  there are Cuban doctors.

The Cuban Deputy Minister led an important delegation  composed of the general manager of the international bank of Cuba,  the director of Africa and  Middle-East department in the Ministry of foreign trade, investment and cooperation and of the deputy chairman  of the medical department of Cuba.

Press department of the Ministry of Finance