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Cuban doctors for South Africa

21 February 1996

By Norm Dixon More than 100 Cuban doctors will arrive in South Africa before the end of February. The doctors will staff posts in rural areas where apartheid-educated medicos refuse to work. Dr Nkosazana Zuma, health minister in the ANC-led government, returned in early February from a visit to Cuba, where she inspected the Cuban health system. She praised it as being based not on a medical profession seeking personal gain but on serving the people. Eventually 600 Cuban doctors, who all speak English, will serve in South Africa.

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