Ministry of Public Health Communiqué

Text: Redacción Digital | Photo: The Star

During the dawn hours today, reported was the kidnapping of two Cuban health care collaborators offering their services in the county of Mandera in the Republic of Kenya. The collaborators are Assel Herrera Correa, Comprehensive General Medicine specialist from the province of Las Tunas, and Landy Rodríguez Hernández, surgical specialist from the province of Villa Clara.

Channels of communication were immediately established with authorities in Kenya to address the situation surrounding the kidnapping of two Cuban collaborators in that country, and family members here are being kept informed

Likewise, a government working group has been set up to follow up on this sensitive issue.