Some two thousand four hundred employees in the health sector in Guantanamo work in 49 countries, with the purpose of improving the quality of life and reducing deaths from curable diseases, especially in poor communities where there was no medical care before their arrival.
Of that figure, 76.9 percent are in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a nation in which the doctors are linked to the Barrio Adentro and Operación Milagro programs, to offer comprehensive and specialized services.
Rosaida Bandera Feijóo, head of the collaboration department in the province, said that the health brigades are also spread in Africa, in countries such as Angola, Niger, Mauritania, Algeria, Sudan, Namibia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana , Timor Leste, Mauritania, Equatorial Guinea, Bostswana and South Africa, among others.
She added that the territory also has collaborators in Haiti, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Hondura, Guatemala, Cape Verde, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, Granada, Santa Lucia, among other countries in the Caribbean and Latin America region.
Guantanamo workers are part of the medical brigade in Suriname recently created in order to increase Cuban services and internationalism and solidarity, basic principles of the Cuban Revolution, with its maximum expression in cooperation.