According to Prensa Latina news agency, during the meeting, the
officials expressed both countries interest in further developing the
exchange of experiences and cooperation in this sector.

Also present were Chinese ministerial officials and the Cuban ambassador to Beijing, Carlos Miguel Pereira, as well as members of Balaguers accompanying delegation.

On Thursday, Balaguer also gave a lecture in the venue of the Chinese
Public Health Ministry about the islands experiences on the development and advances in the training of specialists and the health services offered to the people.

The Cuban Health Minister also visited the city of Datong, in the
Chinese province of Shanxi, some 250 kilometers to the East of Beijing,
where a third Cuba-China Friendship ophthalmological hospital will soon
be inaugurated.

The first center of this kind was inaugurated in December 2006 in
Xining, in the province of Qinghai, and the second will officially open
in the next hours in Hebi, province of Henan.

(ACN)