The US government has criticised South Africa for accepting the assistance of Cuban doctors to fight Covid-19 in the country, accusing Cuba of profiting from human trafficking.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters at a briefing in Washington, DC, on Wednesday that the US had noticed how the regime in Havana was taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to continue its exploitation of Cuban medical workers.“Governments accepting Cuban doctors must pay them directly, otherwise when they pay the regime, they are helping the Cuban government turn a profit on human trafficking,” said Pompeo.
Meanwhile, South Africa’s Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has defended the plan to deploy 200 Cuban doctors to help with Covid-19 cases, saying South Africa owes a huge debt to Cuba for continuous health-care support, reported African News Agency. Mkhize said the Cuban doctors would be deployed to provinces once they emerged from a precautionary quarantine period.
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