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DR & Cuba sign health cooperation pact

Public Health Minister Altagracia Guzm?n Marcelino has signed a health cooperation agreement with her counterpart from Cuba, Carlos Dotres. The agreement provides for Cuban assistance to the DR in primary health care delivery, hospital management, salvage of medical equipment and in technology transfer. The pact was signed against the backdrop of a meeting of Health Ministers from Central America, Cuba and the DR being held yesterday and today at Boca Chica’s Hamaca Hotel. Sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the two-day meeting is intended to foster exchange of experience, information and ideas among ministers about the management of health care delivery in their nations