Havana, March 30, 2020.- Fourteen brigades of the International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics Henry Reeve, with 593 Cuban health professionals, are fighting in other nations the new SARS CoV-2 coronavirus, causing COVID-19, which has spread to more than 174 countries.
Dr. José Ángel Portal Miranda, head of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported this Sunday in a videoconference with the national and foreign press accredited in Havana that 179 of them are doctors, 399 nurses and 15 health technologists, and highlighted that 338 are women.
This new gesture, even though not all countries have managed to do so, will continue to distinguish the Cuban Revolution, said the minister, and clarified that "the Henry Reeve brigades that today are helping other countries in no way endangers the attention of the people's health. "
Cuba has 95,000 doctors (nine for every 1,000 inhabitants) and 84,000 nurses, and sufficient availability of human resources to help other peoples in the fight against the new pathogen, without affecting service to our population, he said.
Portal Miranda said that Cuba has a history of solidarity that no one can tarnish and exemplified that the principle of sharing what we have and not what we have left is supported in that sense.
The Contingent since its creation by Commander in Chief FidelCastro, in September 2005 has been with 28 brigades in 22 countries, more than 7,950 professionals have faced the effects of 16 floods, eight hurricanes, eight earthquakes and four epidemics and it is worth highlighting the Three brigades that faced Ebola in West Africa, said the headline.
From the requests made by certain governments to the current epidemic, Cuba prepared brigades and today they are in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Italy, Suriname, Jamaica, Granada, Spain, the islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Haiti and other nations.
Always ready to go to those places on the planet affected by a disaster or an epidemic, the members of the "Henry Reeve" are immersed in the Cuban health system, where day by day they care for their people and contribute to guaranteeing the most precious of rights: health, and they place Cuba's name high.
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