HAVANA, Cuba.- The Cuban Government will open two new schools in the central and eastern part of the country for children with severe disabilities, President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez announced this Wednesday.

The opening of these institutions responds to the request of the first Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, Raul Castro Ruz, to extend the experience of Solidarity with Panama School located in Havana.

The new special educational centers are in an advanced stage of construction in Villa Clara and Santiago de Cuba, and they will have classrooms for teaching, workshops of labor preparation, service of speech therapy, psycho-pedagogy, psychology and rehabilitation.

The purposes of the institutions include 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.