The Cuban Medical Brigade in Bolivia is planning to consolidate its presence in Vallegrande, a historic site linked to Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara's struggle for national liberation and social justice.

An agreement signed with the town's mayor, Casto Romero, and the coordinator of Cuba's medical brigade in the department of Santa Cruz, Roberto Pérez, will allow for an increase in the number of Cuban specialists at the region's Señor de Malta Hospital.

According to the Cuban consulate in Santa Cruz, the agreement implies a greater commitment on the part of the local government to ensure logistical support and adequate living conditions for the cooperating professionals, who will reinforce services in intensive care, geriatrics, orthopedics, anesthesiology, pediatric surgery, internal medicine, gastroenterology, gynecology, and imaging.

Roberto Pérez recalled the historical significance of the hospital where Che's cadaver was held after his October 9, 1967 assassination and that of the town where an annual commemoration of the Heroic Guerrilla is held.