An aircraft with 203 Cuban health collaborators landed today in Havana, as Cuba continues to bring back her physicians who worked in the Mas Medicos program in Brazil.
With the arrival this Wednesday to Havana of 205 health professionals, the total amount of doctors that have returned from Brazil is 4,115, since Cuba decided not to continue in the More doctors Program.
Cuba and other Latin American countries are celebrating on Monday the Latin American Medicine Day, in tribute to the birth of Cuban scientist Carlos J. Finlay (1833-1915), discoverer of the transmitting agent of yellow fever.
Inés María Chapman, vice-president of the Councils of State and Ministers, received more than 200 doctors from Manaus, Brazil, on Sunday night on the sixteenth flight bringing Cuban doctors from that nation, where they were participating in the More Doctors Program.