Cuba despatched a bunch of 11 well being professionals to Haiti who will help the work of the brigade deployed in that nation
The group will contribute to the care of the victims of the August 14 earthquake. (Photograph: Taken from RHC).
Eleven members of the Henry Reeve Worldwide Contingent of Docs Specialised in Catastrophe Conditions and Severe Epidemics traveled to Haiti on Tuesday to help the Cuban well being brigade presently deployed in that sister nation.
The group will contribute to the care of the victims of the extreme earthquake that occurred on August 14.
On the flag ceremony, which befell on the Central Unit of Medical Cooperation (UCCM), Dr. Regla Angulo Pardo, vice minister of Public Well being, congratulated the medical doctors and thanked them, on behalf of the Authorities, for his or her willingness to go to help their colleagues in Haiti.
Dr. Juan Delgado Bustillo, director of the UCCM, recalled that the Cuban medical personnel was among the many first well being employees to arrange a entrance of pressing medical consideration to the victims within the nation’s southwest instantly after the earthquake.
Didié Álvarez Morejón, the chief physician of the brigade, mentioned that the group is made up of three specialists in Orthopedics and Traumatology, two graduates in the identical space, 4 in Anesthesiology, and two specialists in Normal Surgical procedure.
Cuban medical cooperation with Haiti has been uninterrupted for 20 years, and on the time of the earthquake, 253 professionals had been working there.