Reply #88: Cuba Announces New Co-op Proposals

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Cuba Announces New Co-op Proposals

Santiago de Cuba, Dec 8 (Prensa Latina) Cuba announced new cooperation proposals in the 3rd CARICOM Summit Monday for the fields of public health, education, energy and natural disaster prevention and facing.

Among the new cooperation proposals, there is the opening of new sanitation and public health services in Haiti and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, with the installation of 10 diagnosis centers in Haiti, and one in Saint Vincent, with the contribution of Cuban and local specialists.

The collaboration programs include the creation of a wide ophthalmologic net with three new surgery units in Jamaica, Saint Lucia and Guyana, which will be added to two already working in Haiti, to supply capacity to operate 215 daily patients.

More than 50,000 Caribbeans will be able to restore or improve their vision annually, with this material and human infrastructure.

In the field of education, 480 university scholarships will be opened next year, 150 of them to study Medicine.

The recent Cuban initiatives include ending a program to supply saving bulbs in these aforementioned nations, and foster selling of the bulbs in these places.

Advisory in university studies, market information, use of renewable energy and training personnel to maintain and operate electricity generation plants and electrogen groups, are also included in the Cuban proposals.

The cooperation to create centers for risk reduction, advisory to prevent and mitigate the destructive effects by natural disasters, post graduate courses, promotion of regional technical workshops and strengthening of national and regional capacities, are other choices proposed by Cuba.