Diaz-Canel: Health is a strength of the Cuban Revolution

President Miguel Díaz-Canel described as "a strength of Cuban society" the education and training of health personnel for which it faces a strong defamation campaign by the US government.

In the 27th edition of the podcast Desde La Presidencia, the President described the discrediting actions undertaken by the White House as a “surgical attack” against Public Health and, in particular, against the export of medical services.

Under false arguments that the island’s health professionals perform “slave labor” abroad, “the Government does not pay them” and with them “the Government gets rich”, the ultra-right wing of Cuban origin is trying to “contaminate traditional media and social media with those messages”, he denounced.

In order to dismantle this plan, Díaz-Canel spoke with the Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda, the collaborator and secretary general of the Cuban Red Cross, Carlos Ricardo Pérez, and Luther Castillo, a minister in the cabinet of Honduran President Xiomara Castro and a graduate of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM).

He also recalled the tour that the Secretary of State of the North American country, Marco Rubio, recently made in the region with the declared objective of breaking contracts and commitments of the Caribbean governments with Cuba in this matter.