Cuba to send medical doctors to Zimbabwe

Cuba has pledged to send medical personnel to Zimbabwe among them a group that is expected to start training medicine at Bindura University of Science Education.

The Senior Minister of State in the President's Office, Simon Khaya Moyo, who was recently in Cuba, said Zimbabwe- Cuba relations will culminate in another tranche of medical personnel coming to the country to help ease the challenges bedevilling the sector.

"We are set to receive more doctors from Cuba. We will start having Bindura University now training medicine," he said.

Khaya Moyo also told journalists in Harare that the Communist Party of Cuba sought to share common experience and points of interest on global events, foreign policy positions and other matters of mutual concern with Zanu PF.

He said the meeting with the party reaffirmed the solidarity between the two countries which share a common revolutionary history and are both under unfair sanctions from some western countries.

"The Cubans have safeguarded their sovereignty by having consistent policies. They have been under embargo for longer than us and the reaffirmed relations will see the Communist Party members and others from Russia and China coming to make representations at the upcoming Zanu PF Congress [to be held in December]," said Khaya Moyo.

The trip saw the Senior Minister and his delegation visiting the Cuban parliament and manufacturing centres in Pinar Del Rio as part of efforts to gain knowledge that will help in the implementation of the ZIM-ASSET economic blueprint.

Cuba has been under an illegal embargo from the US for over half a century.