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Haiti's president-elect praises Cuban medical help
Friday, April 14, 2006
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Haitian President-elect Rene Preval praised Cuba's medical help for impoverished Haiti and called for closer ties ahead of a meeting with President Fidel Castro, the official Granma newspaper reported Thursday.
Preval, visiting Cuba with a delegation that includes future members of his government, praised Cuban-trained doctors for the healthcare they have given needy Haitians as he toured a medical school in Santiago de Cuba, according to Granma.
"There's a saying in Haiti: 'After God, there are Cuban doctors'," Preval was quoted as saying, adding: "They have done more than eight million consultations and over 100,000 operations."
Preval, who is due to take office on May 14, also called for increased bilateral links between the two Caribbean states and said he and Castro "are going to look at all the possibilities that cooperation offers".
The Haitian president-elect was due to meet Castro later Thursday at the Palace of the Revolution in the Haitian capital. Preval arrived in Cuba on Wednesday for a four-day visit.
Ties between communist Cuba and Haiti, the hemisphere's poorest country, were broken for more than 30 years until being restored during Preval's first presidency (1996-2001).
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