Kingston, Jamaica, 25 April, 2020. Former Prime Minister of Jamaica Percival James (PJ) Patterson acknowledged Cuba's international assistance in tackling the SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 pandemic around the world, in a statement issued this Wednesday by the PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Policy Advocacy, in the University of the West Indies (UWI). As the text entitled "International solution to the COVID pandemic" reads:
"Former Prime Minister Patterson applauds the generosity of the government and people of Cuba in sending hundreds of doctors, nurses and other health experts to countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Italy to be on the front-line in their fight against COVID-19 . Cuba´s sustained training of its medical and technical personnel and those of other countries, and its scientific research in developing medicines, have enabled it to provide invaluable support to many other countries around the world."
PJ Patterson, a member of the People's National Party of Jamaica, was the country´s Prime Minister between 1992-2005. His voice joins those of more than a dozen Jamaican organizations and personalities that have recognized in recent weeks the role of Cuba in facing the serious COVID-19 pandemic..