Havana, March 27 (RHC)-- Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel announced Wednesday that Cuba will soon inaugurate two new pedagogical centers for the care of children with special educational needs.

"In Cuba we will soon  inaugurate two new schools for children with severe disabilities in the center and east of the country. The experience of the "Republic of Panama" school will be expanded at  the request of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz," tweet the Cuban president.

The announcement comes in the context of the presentation Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of a report that shows the country's commitment to the promotion and protection of the human rights of its people and the construction of a society that achieves justice and full dignity, according to the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anayansi Rodriguez.

The special education centers are at an advanced stage of construction in the provinces of Villa Clara and Santiago de Cuba,  and they will have classrooms for teaching, workshops for work preparation, speech therapy, psychopedagogy, psychology and rehabilitation.

Among the purposes of the institutions are the physical-motor and psychological rehabilitation in relation to the diagnosis of each student and the objectives of the corresponding educational level to ensure continuity of studies.

Schools will have the necessary technical support to offer physical rehabilitation services and other specialized treatment that may contribute to self-validation or other compensatory mechanisms.

The school Solidarity with Panama for children with physical disabilities was inaugurated in Havana in 1989 by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.