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Cuba and Ghana Sign Accord
to Fight Malaria
Havana,
September 25.— Cuba’s Biological Laboratories
enterprise Labiofam and Ghana signed a letter of
intent on Wednesday to keep bilateral actions
towards the control of Malaria in the African nation.
The document
was signed by Labiofam’s director Jose Antonio Fraga
and Ghana’s Deputy Health Minister Victor Bampoe,
who is heading a delegation to the 2014
International Congress of Labiofam at Havana’s
International Convention Center.
The joint
Malaria program has been implemented in the capital,
Accra, and the recently signed accord includes
technical advice and biological products to control
the disease in other regions of Ghana.
Labiofam’s
director said that the objective of Cuban
cooperation is not that of selling local products
but transferring technology and know-how to other
nations. He announced that his entity is scheduled
to conclude a large biotechnological plant in Dar es
Salam, Tanzania, this year. The facility will not
only produce bio-products to fight Malaria, but also
bio-fertilizers and biological pest control agents
for agriculture in several African countries.
The Ghanaian
deputy health minister described the accord as a
further gesture of friendship between the two
countries and added that they welcome the bilateral
cooperation program so that Ghana advances in the
elimination of Malaria. (Taken from Radio Havana
Cuba)
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