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US did not influence Jamaica's decision to end Cuban medical programme, says Johnson Smith
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HandelsblattCuba has been earning billions of dollars with medical assignments abroad for years. Washington calls this "forced labor" and calls for consequences.
Jamaica puts an end to its medical collaboration with Cuba after not reaching a new agreement. The program, in effect since 1976, allowed the presence of Cuban doctors in the Jamaican health system.
Cuba – Blames US Pressure on Jamaica to Terminate 50-Year Medical Services Contract
Cuba says it will withdraw its 277 medical professionals currently serving in Jamaica, a blow to the island which sought to cushion the fallout from ending a 50-year cooperation programme that helped fill key gaps in the health system. Cuba also claims that Jamaica bowed to pressure from the United States to terminate the programme. Jamaica had offered to engage the workers on individual contracts until their tenures ended. The health workers ha…
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US did not influence Jamaica's decision to end Cuban medical programme, says Johnson Smith
Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith told Parliament on Thursday that the Government's decision to discontinue the 50-year-old medical cooperation programme with Cuba was not influenced by the United States. She said the move stemmed from unresolved issues in renegotiating the agreement. "No," Johnson Smith replied after Opposition lawmaker Alfred Dawes asked at a parliamentary committee meeting Thursday night whether Washington had a h…
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