Cape Verde’s health minister to attend meeting in China next month

Cape Verde Minister of Health and Social Welfare Arlindo do Rosário will visit China next month for an international meeting on health, A Semana reports.

The Cape Verdean newspaper quotes Mr do Rosário as saying he will take the opportunity to boost Sino-Cape Verdean co-operation. “We have a very strong relationship with China,” he said. “We want to enhance that in other areas of co-operation.”

Eight Chinese doctors are due to arrive in Cape Verde next month to work at the Hospital Dr Agostinho Neto in the Cape Verde capital, Praia, under the terms of a Sino-Cape Verdean agreement.