HAVANA, May 23 (Xinhua) -- The Kenyan government continues its efforts to rescue the two Cuban doctors kidnapped in the African nation, Cuban health authorities said Thursday.
Cuban Health Minister Jose Angel Portal said on Twitter that he held talks with his Kenyan counterpart Sicily Kariuki, and assessed the progress of the rescue operation.
"The Kenyan minister promised that her government will continue the actions to send back our two kidnapped doctors," said Portal.
The two doctors, who were treating patients in Mandera County on Kenya's border with Somalia, were ambushed on April 12 by armed men in a brazen attack.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has said that Havana "works tirelessly" to bring the two kidnapped doctors back home safe.
Portal has assured that other members of the Cuban Medical Brigade in Kenya are doing well, offering their services to people there.
Cuba began the medical collaboration with Kenya in June 2018, with a brigade of 101 doctors working throughout the Kenyan territory.
