Salvados Valdes Mesa (front, second, left), First Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, visits the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Dong Hoi Hospital on September 14, 2018 (Photo: VNA)

The Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Dong Hoi Hospital in central Quang Binh province, one of the various facilities that Cuban leader Fidel Castro committed to help Vietnam with during his historical trip to the liberated area in South Vietnam in September 1973, is regarded as a ‘gem’ of the friendship between the two countries. At the height of the anti-US resistance war, Fidel became the first foreign leader to set foot on one of the fiercest battlefields at that time: Quang Binh province and the newly-liberated area in Quang Tri.

During his visit, Mr. Mesa laid a wreath at the Fidel Castro Statue at the hospital and presented the hospital with a painting featuring President Fidel Castro visiting the liberated region in southern Vietnam.