FILE PHOTO: Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel speaks during a welcoming ceremony to Cuban doctors just arrived from Brazil at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, November 23, 2018. REUTERS/Fernando Medina/File Photo
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel said more than 90 percent of the Cuban doctors who had been providing medical care in Brazil have returned home after his government ended a cooperation deal following a diplomatic row.
Cuba's communist government pulled out of the programme last month after far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro questioned the Cuban doctors' qualifications and said they were being used as "slave labour" because their country took 75 percent of their salaries.
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