MEC for health Dr Phophi Ramathuba welcomed 13 Cuban healthcare workers yesterday at St-Maria in Polokwane and said the team would be going to the communities around the Burgersfort area which has been identified as a hotspot for Covid-19 in the province.
MEC for health Dr Phophi Ramathuba welcomed 13 Cuban healthcare workers yesterday at St-Maria in Polokwane and said the team would be going to the communities around the Burgersfort area which has been identified as a hotspot for the coronavirus in the province.
Ramathuba said the deployment of the Cubans in Limpopo consisted of eight family physicians, one epidemiologist, one biostatistician and three health technologists."These are medical experts who have arrived in our country to offer support in the fight against the spread of Covid-19. Leandro Gonzales Moreno, the representative of the Cuban healthcare workers, said they were in the country to support SA in the fight against the virus.
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