Cuba offers 200 fully-paid scholarships for Palestinian medical students to study on the island

The Cuban Government is offering an additional 200 fully-paid scholarships for Palestinian medical students to complete undergraduate and graduate education in the coming years.   The announcement was made by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel when he received the ambassador of the State of Palestine, Dr. Akram Mohammad Samhan, who is finishing his diplomatic mission on the Caribbean island nation.

The Palestinian diplomat thanked the Cuban president for his support to the students of his country, whom Cuba “has been protecting and supporting.”

Currently, 250 students from Palestine are studying on the Caribbean island, pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies at different higher education centers.

During the meeting at the Palace of the Revolution, the Cuban president said that Akram Mohammad Samhan will always be appreciated “as a friend of Cuba, and we will appreciate all the work you did as ambassador over the years, promoting relations between our peoples, between our governments.”

The Cuban leader considered that this period, amid a genocidal war of aggression, has been difficult for the ambassador.   Akram Mohammad Samhan thanked the Cuban president for his words, and said that it has been an honor to be “working in Cuba, representing the Palestinian people, their cause, their struggle.”

Regarding the Cuban president, Ambassador Akram Mohammad Samhan stressed that he has accompanied the “State, leading the demonstrations of the Cuban people in favor of the struggle of our people, and against the genocide that Israel is committing.”