Havana,
Mar 23 (Prensa Latina) A Cuban Medical Team made up of 52 Health Professionals,
some of whom, with experience in the fight against Ebola in Africa, arrived in
Italy on Sunday to help fight Covid-19 in Lombardy, the most affected city.
That
is the sixth Cuban team to join the fight against the pandemic in the world and
the first to travel to Europe, reported the television of the largest of the
Antilles.
Last
Saturday, another 144 health workers belonging to the Henry Reeve contingent,
specialized in responding to disasters and major epidemics, went to Jamaica to
join efforts to control and confront the new coronavirus on that Caribbean
Island.
The
group is made up of doctors and nursing graduates from across the country, 70
percent of whom are women.
The
brigade will join the 40 Cuban Health Professionals who arrived in Jamaica in
late November to serve in that nation for three years.
Cuba’s
collaboration with Jamaica on health began in 1976, with a brigade of 14
doctors, under the current technical cooperation agreement between the two
countries.
Other Cuban medical brigades recently went to
Venezuela, Nicaragua, Suriname and Granada, in order to combat the pandemic
that is plaguing the world today.
