News24 reports that on Saturday, Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku welcomed 28 Cuban Medical Brigade doctors to the province, saying he hoped SA could learn from the experiences of the foreign experts.  

More than 200 of the professionals arrived in SA last month, consisting of family physicians, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, healthcare technology engineers, biotechnology experts and other specialists.  "We have changed gear and that is where we are going to use the experience of the Cuban [Medical] Brigade because we are going into our communities doing a door-to-door and a ward-based approach in terms of the strategy," Masuku said, adding that the approach would focus on hot spots.  He went on to comment more generally:  "This is what we think will be the backbone of our National Health Insurance because what we are hoping to achieve and build beyond this is a primary healthcare system that will be able to create a sustainable healthcare system going forward.”  He opined that the partnership would be a way to build such a type of healthcare system.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Azarrah Karrim at News24

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