Sep
20
2021
16 Years of the Henry Reeve Medical Contingent: You Have Been Where You Have Been Most Needed, And You Have Not Failed
By: José Angel Portal Miranda
19 September 2021
Today marks the 16th anniversary of that decisive September. It was the year 2005 and, after the hard hit of Hurricane Katrina in the southern United States, as a relief to the pain, Fidel bequeathed us the idea and the hope that a contingent specialized in disaster situations and serious epidemics distributes.
The doctors of the Henry Reeve contingent - the name they received in memory of that exceptional young American fighter who died fighting for the independence of Cuba - have been doctors of the world ever since.
