Spanish government showed on Saturday its readiness to equip two rural hospitals in Saada governorate of Yemen, Saba reported. During his meeting with Yemeni Public Health and Population Minister Abdul Karim Rase'a, Spanish ambassador to Yemen Marcos Vega told the minister that his country had accepted the Yemeni request to provide the Sanaa-based 48-bed hospital with medical equipment as well. The meeting discussed means of implementing the protocol of health cooperation signed between the two countries during the visit of President Ali Abdullah Saleh to Spain in January 2008. The meeting also dealt with the program of the Spanish medical team arrived today, Saturday, that will conduct surgeries in two weeks in the al-Thawra Hospital in Sana'a.
