Havana, April 29 (RHC) – Peruvian Health Minister Midori de Habich has stressed Cuba’s medical cooperation in developing primary attention, as part of the reforms in her sector.

The minister submitted a report to the International Committee of the Peruvian Parliament on the arrival in the country of a 47-member Cuban medical brigade.

Cuba has a large experience in primary health care and has developed a family and community medicine model that can be adapted to Peruvian reality, said the minister.

The official also reported on the antecedents of Cuban medical cooperation with Peru, which began 44 years ago with a first group of doctors who assisted the victims of the devastating quake that hit the Ancash region on May 24, 1970.

Such cooperation, the minister pointed out, is based on accords signed by the two countries in 1991, 1999, 2013 and 2014.