SA acts on Cuba students

SA acts on Cuba students
Poppy Louw | 04 juli, 2013 00:21

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says plans for sending to Cuba an
attaché who will liaise between South African medical students there and
his department are being finalised.

Speaking at the graduation of 62 medical students at the University of
Pretoria yesterday, Motsoaledi said the attaché would help "ease the
pressure on the embassy on that side".

Twenty-six of 187 students quit their studies in Cuba after the
government refused to increase their stipend from about R2000 to R7000.
The programme has trained 366 doctors since 1995, most of whom are
deployed to rural hospitals.

Tumiso Seoke, 31, the first in his family to graduate, said the living
conditions in Cuba did not bother him: "Maybe it is because I grew up in
poverty that I was able to cope."

Source: "SA acts on Cuba students - Times LIVE" -
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