Havana. The Cuban Overseas Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, highlighted this Thursday the 61st anniversary of the start of the worldwide medical collaboration that started in Algeria, on Might 23, 1963, and that has been current in 165 international locations.
“It’s 61 years since Cuba despatched the primary medical collaboration brigade. In that point they’ve carried out 16,534,286 surgical procedures and provided 2,242 million consultations in 165 international locations. Our well being personnel are an instance of solidarity and consecration to avoid wasting lives,” careworn the pinnacle of Cuban diplomacy on his X social community account.
61 years in the past, a contingent made up of 29 medical doctors, 4 stomatologists, 14 nurses and 7 well being technicians arrived in Algeria, a rustic that after declaring its independence, suffered the mass departure of French medical doctors, to the purpose of solely 600 remaining. medical doctors within the nation, 285 Algerians and different volunteers who offered service for brief durations, to look after practically 11 million inhabitants.
The route initiated by these 54 well being professionals has been adopted by greater than 600 thousand well being employees in these 61 years in 165 nations, most of them growing international locations, affected by earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, epidemics and volcanic eruptions, amongst others. catastrophes.
Brigades of Cuban medical doctors have been current within the care of victims of earthquakes in Peru (1970), Nicaragua (1972), Mexico (1985), Armenia (1988), Iran (1990), Algeria (2003), and Pakistan (2005); and after hurricanes and floods in Honduras (1974-1998), Nicaragua (1988-1998), Guatemala (1998), Venezuela (1999) and Guyana (2005).
In addition they cooperated through the dengue epidemic in Central America, from 2000 to 2003, in El Salvador, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and in 2005 in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, nations devastated by a tsunami.
On September 19, 2005, the Worldwide Contingent of Docs Specialised in Catastrophe Conditions and Critical Epidemics, Henry Reeve, was shaped, shaped at the moment by a gaggle of 1,518 well being professionals, who volunteered to assist the victims of the hurricane. Katrina, which prompted huge human and materials injury in New Orleans, United States, however Washington rejected the Cuban proposal.
Throughout the covid-19 pandemic, 58 Cuban medical brigades labored in 42 nations in Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Oceania, within the care, therapy and prevention of this scourge.
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– 2024-05-26 23:07:25
