Cuba's Public Health Minister, Jose Angel Portal, carried out an extensive agenda during his stay in this Swiss city to participate in the high-level segment of the 78th World Health Assembly.

Geneva.- The minister held productive bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Angola, Qatar, Egypt, Kuwait, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, the Bahamas, and Grenada, among others, and held talks with health authorities from different countries, diplomatic sources said.

He also met with the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus; the director of the Pan American Health Organization, Jarbas Barbosa; the assistant director of the Pan American Health Organization, Rhonda Sealey-Thomas; and other high representatives of international health organizations.

In his speech, during the Assembly’s general debate, Portal Miranda also spoke after the adoption of the Agreement on Pandemic Prevention, Response and Recovery, according to a press release.

The minister shared Cuba’s experiences at the side event on "New perspectives for a world without tuberculosis," and made a detailed presentation on the importance of South-South Cooperation in the face of the current global health challenges, and the contributions of the collaboration and solidarity offered by Cuba to many nations of the world.

The Cuban minister signed memoranda of understanding with his counterparts from Indonesia, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, and the Sultanate of Oman, Hilal bin Ali bin Hilal Al Sabti, aimed at strengthening and expanding cooperation in the health field with those nations. (PL)