Hanoi, Vietnam.- Cuba expressed its willingness to increase cooperation in health with Vietnam, and in particular with a hospital in the central province of Quang Binh, which was donated to this country by Fidel Castro.

Visiting the institution, the ambassador in the Indochinese nation, Lianys Torres, stated that the island is willing to continue honoring in this and other fields the historic friendship between the two nations.

The diplomat also presented three physicians recently arrived in Vietnam to join the staff of that center, which carries the symbolic name of Vietnam-Cuba Friendship.

They are Piter Martinez (cardiologist), Aracelio Perez (orthopedic) and Crescencio Aneiro (neurosurgeon), who join other 17 who have been working in Hanoi for months.

Under a two-year, renewable contract, Cuban specialists will transfer their knowledge and mastery of modern techniques to their colleagues at that center, located in the provincial capital, Dong Hoi.