covid-19
Cuban doctors come with a R440m price tag
Costing projects annual bill will run to R440m for a medical brigade of 187 Cuban personnel
29 April 2020 - 05:10
The Cuban health-care team that arrived in SA at the weekend to help combat Covid-19 is set to cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of rand, it emerged on Tuesday.
The Cuban "medical brigade" was sent to SA after a request by President Cyril Ramaphosa to his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Díaz-Canel, marking another step in the more than 20 years of medical diplomacy between the two countries...
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