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ROAD TO SUCCESS: Many of the early graduates of the SA–Cuba medical training programme now hold senior leadership positions in SA’s health sector.
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They arrived in Cuba with a suitcase and returned to SA as doctors

Twenty-eight years after the first South African students left for Cuba to study medicine, an increasing number are in senior leadership positions in healthcare

  • Sean Christie
24 min read