Fourteen brigades of the International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics "Henry Reeve", with 593 Cuban health professionals, fight in other nations the new coronavirus SARS CoV-2, causing COVID-19, of them, 179 are doctors, 399 nurses and 15 health technologists, 338 are women.
This new gesture will continue to distinguish the Cuban Revolution. The Henry Reeve brigades that today are helping other countries in no way jeopardize the health care of the Cuban people.
Cuba has 95,000 doctors (nine for every thousand inhabitants) and 84,000 nurses, and sufficient availability of human resources to be able to help other peoples in the fight against the new pathogen, without affecting service to our population.
Cuba has a history of solidarity that no one can tarnish, based on the principle of sharing what we have and not what is left over.
The Henry Reeve Contingent since its creation by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, 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 noting the three brigades that faced Ebola in West Africa.
Based on the requests made by certain governments in the face of the current epidemic, Cuba prepared brigades and today they are in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Italy, Suriname, Jamaica, Granada, Andorra, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Haiti, Dominica, Belize, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, and Antigua and Barbuda.
Always ready to go to those parts of the world affected by a disaster or an epidemic, the members of the "Henry Reeve" Contingent 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 put Cuba's name high.
(Cubaminrex)