Cambodia and Cuba have reaffirmed their commitment to continue collaboration in the health sector, focusing on skills exchange and capacity building for the treatment of cancer and common diseases.
The reaffirmation was made in a meeting between H.E. Chheang Ra, Minister of Health, and H.E. Ms. Milena Caridad Zaldivar Piedra, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba to the Kingdom of Cambodia in Phnom Penh on Aug. 27.
H.E. Chheang Ra congratulated H.E. Ms. Milena Caridad Zaldivar Piedra on her new role in Cambodia and informed H.E. Ambassador that he will join the annual global health conference in Cuba in 2025, at the invitation of the Ministry of Public Health of the Republic of Cuba.
The minister thanked the Government of Cuba for supporting and contributing to promoting Cambodia’s health service, especially through the deployment of Cuban voluntary doctors for free treatment of Cambodian people since 1979.
Cuba has also helped train Cambodian doctors and medical students and provided health scholarships to Cambodia, he added.
H.E. Ms. Milena Caridad Zaldivar Piedra pledged to continue cooperation with the ministry through more health scholarship opportunities, medial knowledge and experience sharing, and technical skill capacity building for Cambodian doctors on cancer treatment and other common diseases.
