Havana, Aug 24 (ACN) Cuban medical collaboration extends in Oceania with the departure of a brigade of internationalists to the Republic of Nauru, a small island of Micronesia, located in the Central Pacific.
Specialists in Oncology, Nephrology, Psychiatry, Endocrinology, Rehabilitation, Internal Medicine, Angiology, among others, will arrive in the country, some 12 thousand kilometers away from Cuba, to attend to the main health problems of the nation and develop health education activities.
Kiribati and Vanuatu are the other two Small Islands States in the region, where Cuban collaborators are located, whose arrival in this Pacific area responds to an initiative of Fidel Castro, the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, said Dr. Jorge Delgado Bustillo, Deputy General Director of the Cuban Central Unit of Medical Collaboration (UCCM).
Dr. Jorge Luis Plutín Benítez, Coordinator of the Cuban Medical Team, told the Cuban News Agency (ACN) that, information that have been sheare and documented during the preparations of the Team in Havana, reflects that in the Small Island Country could have a high incidences of chronic non-communicable diseases, associated with obesity, which explains the composition of the medical team.
Besides to providing primary care, among the first tasks we will undertake, will be the development of studies to understand the main health problems and adapt intervention protocols, in addition to the support of the maternal and child care and family planning programs, added Dr. Plutín Benitez.
This is the largest Cuban Medical Team that has arrived in Nauru since the health collaboration between the two Island Countries began more than a decade ago, and the objective of its members is to establish the necessary bases to extend the cooperation.
Nauru has a population of approximately 10 thousand inhabitants, in a total land area of 21 square kilometers. The country obtained its independence in 1968, after Australia, Great Britain and New Zealand put an end to their joint administration, under a trusteeship of the United Nations. The phosphate mining, is one of its main sources of income.
Fifty-five years after the beginning of the Cuban International Medical Collaboration, today, Cuban professionals carry out their solidarity work in 65 countries all over the World.