Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, 25 February 2021. Members of the “Henry Reeve” International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics who provide medical services in this British overseas territory were awarded the Heroes of the Pandemic award.
The group of Cuban health professionals, made up of twenty doctors and nurses, arrived in the Turks and Caicos Islands on June 15, 2020 and since then they have contributed to the fight against Covid-19 in that territory.
Between July and December 2020, Cuban health personnel on the Island treated 10,685 patients, performed 101 surgeries and carried out 27,212 nursing procedures. Likewise, they registered a total of 83 lives saved.
The “Henry Reeve” Medical Contingent was founded on September 19, 2005 to provide humanitarian and medical assistance to populations victims of natural disasters and epidemics in other countries, and to help them recover from such events.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Cuba has sent 55 brigades of the Henry Reeve Contingent to 40 countries, currently 38 are active with a total of 2,544 members. Since they started working in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Asia, these professionals have treated one million 090 thousand 799 people.