Cuban doctors serving at various health facilities across The Gambia last year attended to 674,820 patients in the country.
This disclosure was made by Mrs Teresa Diasy Diaz Albuerne, third Secretary at the Cuban Embassy in
Mrs Diaz made this revelation at a press briefing at the Cuban Embassy in Fajara.
According to her, in 2011 the entire Cuban general medical doctors in the country assisted 450,327 patients and each doctor attended to 7, 263 patients.
“On surgical operations, in 2011 they conducted surgical operations to 7,707 patients in the country,” she added.
She noted that on professional training of human resource in
She revealed that the relations between
Regarding Cuba, she said: “In 2011 Cuba achieved so many things key among them were the high record number of tourists who visited Cuba that stands at 2,531,745, its world index of human development rate at 51st place among 187 nations, GDP of 2.7%, infant mortality rate of 4.9%, a stable economy that is acceptable and sustainable with the gradual recuperation of sugar cane production and domestic balance in national currency,” Diaz remarked.
Cuban’s new position in the human development report in 2011 is to be publicly presented in
According to Mrs Diaz, the level of education and life expectancy at birth are two indicators that have let
She quoted a local UN official in