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Cuban doctors to arrive

    JOHANNESBURG

    Some 130 Cuban doctors are due to arrive this month to help ease the plight of Zimbabwe’s health care services.

    News reports quoted health minister Timothy Stamps as saying the doctors would be attached to major hospitals for orientation before deployment to rural hospitals where there is an acute shortage. Stamps, who was in Cuba last month, said an agreement had been signed and all that was awaited was the arrival of the doctors.

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