Cuban doctors for South Africa

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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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